Countries
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2754
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
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
matur nuwun
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
piye kabare?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
wengi sing apik
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
matur nuwun
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Vedda
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Cirebon
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arekan
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
161
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
82.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
javanais
singhalais
German Name
Javanisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Sinhalese people
Origin
450 AD
3
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Javanese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
1170
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
sin
ISO 639 2/B
jav
sin
ISO 639 3
jav
sin
ISO 639 6
jav
sin
Glottocode
java1253
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