Countries
Haiti
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Haiti
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Central America, North America
Asia
Minority Language
Cuba
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
- 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
French Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2954
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
718
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
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bonjou
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Mèsi
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kijan ou yé?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Bon nwit
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Bonswa
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Bon apre-midi
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Bon apre-midi
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Souple
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Dezole
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Babay
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Mwen renmen w
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Eskize m
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Northern Haitian Creole
Vedda
Where They Speak
Cap-Haitien
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Haitian Creole
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Port-au-Prince
-
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Haitian Creole
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Cayes
-
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
9.60 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.15 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
9.60 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kreyòl ayisyen
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
haïtien; créole haïtien
singhalais
German Name
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[kɣejɔl]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Haitians
Sinhalese people
Origin
17th Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Haitian Creole
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
9970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ht
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hat
sin
ISO 639 2/B
hat
sin
ISO 639 3
hat
sin
ISO 639 6
hat
sin
Glottocode
hait1244
sinh1246
Linguasphere
51-AAC-cb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional