Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
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National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2154
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1636
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
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ciao
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
grazie
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Come stai?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
buonanotte
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
buonasera
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
buongiorno
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Per Favore
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
scusate
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
arrivederci
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ti amo
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Scusami
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Romanesco
Vedda
Where They Speak
Lazio
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Italian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tuscan
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
-
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
151
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
78.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.90 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
64.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
14.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Italiano
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Italiano
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
italien
singhalais
German Name
Italienisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Italians
Sinhalese people
Origin
960 BC
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Italian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2770
1
120
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Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
it
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ita
sin
ISO 639 2/B
ita
sin
ISO 639 3
ita
sin
ISO 639 6
itas
sin
Glottocode
ital1282
sinh1246
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional