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Countries

Countries

Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

321
0 46
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National Language

France
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Africa, Canada
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia

Minority Language

Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  • 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

Italian Language
Maldivian Language

Derived From

Latin
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2654
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

618
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2036
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

62
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bonjour
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Merci
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Comment allez-vous?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

bonne Nuit
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

bonsoir
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

bon Après-Midi
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Bonjour
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

S'il vous plaît
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

désolé
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

au revoir
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Je t'aime
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Excuse Moi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Quebec French
Vedda

Where They Speak

New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

6,200,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

African French
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Africa
-

How Many People Speak

274,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Swiss French
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Northeast France, Switzerland
-

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

251
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

163.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.12 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

76.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

87.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

français
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Français
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

français
singhalais

German Name

Französisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

French people
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

9th Century
3

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Romance
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old French, Middle French and French
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Standard French
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

1370
1 120
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Signed Forms

le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fr
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fra
sin

ISO 639 2/B

fre
sin

ISO 639 3

fra
sin

ISO 639 6

fras
sin

Glottocode

stan1290
sinh1246

Linguasphere

51-AAA-i
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional

French and Sinhalese Alphabets

French and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in French and Sinhalese. In French Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn French and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of French and Sinhalese languages. The French phonology consist French vowels and French consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at French greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether French and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All French and Sinhalese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all French and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of French and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of French are spoken in different French Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking French vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the French dialects include: Quebec French, African French. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

French and Sinhalese Speaking population

French and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which French and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of French and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak French and Sinhalese on French vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

French and Sinhalese Language Codes

French and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. French and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.