Countries
Nigeria
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Nigeria
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
- 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
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4454
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3236
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
gode ku
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
yaya dai
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Don Allah
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
yi hakuri
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
sai anjima
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ina son ku
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Vedda
Where They Speak
Ghana
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Niger
-
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Daragaram
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Niger
-
How Many People Speak
50.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
201
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
50.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
haoussa
singhalais
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Sinhalese people
Origin
14
3
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Hausa
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
sin
ISO 639 2/B
hau
sin
ISO 639 3
hau
sin
ISO 639 6
hau
sin
Glottocode
haus1257
sinh1246
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional