Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic 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
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2454
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1736
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
bye
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Vedda
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
-
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
-
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
11.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.17 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
11.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
18.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
kazakh
singhalais
German Name
Kasachisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Kazahks
Sinhalese people
Origin
17th Century
3
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
9370
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kazakh Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
kk
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
sin
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
sin
ISO 639 3
kaz
sin
ISO 639 6
kaz
sin
Glottocode
kaza1248
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional