Countries
Israel
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Israel
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Israel
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of the Hebrew Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew 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
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Aramaic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2254
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
018
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2236
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Hebrew
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
שלום (Shalom)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
תודה (Toda)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
בבקשה (bevekshah)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
סליחה! (Slicha)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
להתראות (Lehitraot)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
בבקשה!
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Vedda
Where They Speak
Israel
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Samaritan Hebrew
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Israel, Palestine
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yemenite Hebrew
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Israel
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
71
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.40 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.60 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Israeli, Ivrit
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
hébreu
singhalais
German Name
Hebräisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Hebrew-speaking people
Sinhalese people
Origin
1000 BC
3
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Canaanitic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Hebrew
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2370
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Hebrew
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
he
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
heb
sin
ISO 639 2/B
heb
sin
ISO 639 3
heb
sin
ISO 639 6
heb
sin
Glottocode
hebr1246
sinh1246
Linguasphere
12-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional