Countries
Fiji, India
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4454
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1118
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3336
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Vedda
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Marwari
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bundeli
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
211
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
380.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
हिन्दी
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
hindi
singhalais
German Name
Hindi
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Sinhalese people
Origin
7th Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
570
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
sin
ISO 639 2/B
hin
sin
ISO 639 3
hin
sin
ISO 639 6
hins
sin
Glottocode
hind1269
sinh1246
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional