Countries
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Commission on the Filipino Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
- 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
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Ilokano Braille, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
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
Kablaaw
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Agyamanak
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kumusta?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Naimbag a rabii
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Naimbag a sardam
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Naimbag a malem
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Naimbag a bigat
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
mangngegda
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Agpakawanak
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Pakada
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ayayatenka
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Maawan-dayawen
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Balangao
Vedda
Where They Speak
Philippines
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
21,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bontoc
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Philippines
-
How Many People Speak
41,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Not present
-
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
21
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.10 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
9.10 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ilokano
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Ilokano, Iloko
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
ilocano
singhalais
German Name
Ilokano-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[iːloˈkɑno]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Ilocano people
Sinhalese people
Origin
18th Century
3
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Ilocano
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
9470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ilocano Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ilo
sin
ISO 639 2/B
ilo
sin
ISO 639 3
ilo
sin
ISO 639 6
ilo
sin
Glottocode
ilok1237
sinh1246
Linguasphere
31-CBA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional