Countries
Japan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9954
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1436
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Vedda
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
-
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
kansai
-
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
311
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
japonais
singhalais
German Name
Japanisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Sinhalese people
Origin
1185
3
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Japanese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
870
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
sin
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
sin
ISO 639 3
jpn
sin
ISO 639 6
jpn
sin
Glottocode
nucl1643
sinh1246
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
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