Countries
Estonia, European Union
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Finnish
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2754
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
918
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
aitäh
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Head ööd
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Palun
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Vabandust
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Head aega
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Vedda
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
-
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
-
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
81
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
estonien
singhalais
German Name
Estnisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Sinhalese people
Origin
13th century
3
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Finnic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Estonian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2270
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
sin
ISO 639 2/B
est
sin
ISO 639 3
est
sin
ISO 639 6
est
sin
Glottocode
esto1258
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional