Countries
India, Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
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
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4454
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1718
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2736
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
سہا مسا
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
مهربانی کر
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Vedda
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Poguli
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
-
How Many People Speak
6,100,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rambani
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.42 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
kashmiri
singhalais
German Name
Kaschmiri
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
Sinhalese people
Origin
12th Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Kashmiri
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2370
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ks
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kas
sin
ISO 639 2/B
kas
sin
ISO 639 3
kas
sin
ISO 639 6
kas
sin
Glottocode
kash1277
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional