Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
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National Language
Germany
Sri Lanka
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2654
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1018
0
32
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How Many Consonants
936
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
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Danke
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
gute Nacht
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
guten Abend
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
bitte
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Verzeihung
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Tschüs
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Vedda
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Germany
-
How Many People Speak
820,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Texas German
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Texas
-
How Many People Speak
6,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
281
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
229.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.39 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
101.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Deutsch
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
allemand
singhalais
German Name
Deutsch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Germans
Sinhalese people
Origin
6th Century AD
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
de
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
sin
ISO 639 2/B
ger
sin
ISO 639 3
deu
sin
ISO 639 6
deus
sin
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
sinh1246
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional