Countries
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2654
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1936
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
72
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Terima kasih
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
mohon Untuk
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
maaf
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Permisi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Sundanese
Vedda
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Balinese
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
-
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
461
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
163.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
23.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
indonésien
singhalais
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Indonesians
Sinhalese people
Origin
7th Century
3
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Malay
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Indonesian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
5670
1
120
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Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
id
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ind
sin
ISO 639 2/B
ind
sin
ISO 639 3
ind
sin
ISO 639 6
ind
sin
Glottocode
indo1316
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional