Countries
European Union, Finland
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Estonia
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2954
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
818
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1336
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
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Kiitos
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
haluta
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Anteeksi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Heippa
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Vedda
Where They Speak
Finland
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
-
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
-
How Many People Speak
60,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
211
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.01 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
finnois
singhalais
German Name
Finnisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Sinhalese people
Origin
1543
3
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Finnic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2270
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
sin
ISO 639 2/B
fin
sin
ISO 639 3
fin
sin
ISO 639 6
fin
sin
Glottocode
finn1318
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, Synthetic
Fusional