Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Sri Lanka
Second Language
United States of America
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
- 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
Mansi and Khanty Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4054
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1418
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2536
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
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
szia
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
köszönöm
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
jó Estét
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Kérlek
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
bocsi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
viszlát
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Szeretlek
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
elnézést
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Csángó
Vedda
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oberwart
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Austria
-
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Székely
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Székely Land
-
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
111
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.19 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.07 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Magyar
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
hongrois
singhalais
German Name
Ungarisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Hungarians
Sinhalese people
Origin
1192 AD
3
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Ugric
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
6670
1
120
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Signed Forms
Hungarian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hu
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hun
sin
ISO 639 2/B
hun
sin
ISO 639 3
hun
sin
ISO 639 6
hun
sin
Glottocode
hung1274
sinh1246
Linguasphere
ohu
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional