Countries
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
- 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
Tagalog Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Spanish Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2854
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2336
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kumusta
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Salamat
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kumusta
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
magandang gabi
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Magandang gabi
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Magandang umaga
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Mangyaring
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Paalam
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Mahal kita
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
patawarin ninyo ako
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Bikol
Vedda
Where They Speak
Philippines
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
100,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hiligaynon
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Philippines
-
How Many People Speak
8,200,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Waray
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Philippines
-
How Many People Speak
2,600,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
81
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
90.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.74 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
45.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
filipino
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Pilipino
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
filipino; pilipino
singhalais
German Name
Pilipino
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Filipino people
Sinhalese people
Origin
16th Century
3
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Filipino
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Filipino Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No Data Available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fil
sin
ISO 639 2/B
fil
sin
ISO 639 3
fil
sin
ISO 639 6
fil
sin
Glottocode
fili1244
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No Data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional