Countries
Meghalaya
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
-
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
- 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
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1436
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
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
Kumno
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Khublei
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
thia sukh
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
khublei
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Sngewbha
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Map
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
khublei
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
ieit ieit
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
map a nga
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Vedda
Where They Speak
-
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Nonglung
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.84 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.84 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Ka Ktien
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
khasi
singhalais
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Sinhalese people
Origin
1200 AD
3
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Khasi
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
4070
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
sin
ISO 639 2/B
kha
sin
ISO 639 3
kha
sin
ISO 639 6
kha
sin
Glottocode
khas1269
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional