Countries
Nigeria
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
- 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 Hausa Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3654
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
818
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2836
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
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
dalụ
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
ka chi fo
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Biko
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Ndo
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Kachifo
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Vedda
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
24.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
201
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
igbo
singhalais
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Sinhalese people
Origin
30th Century BC
3
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
5770
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
sin
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
sin
ISO 639 3
ibo
sin
ISO 639 6
ibo
sin
Glottocode
nucl1417
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional