Countries
Burma
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, 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
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu 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
Kinyarwanda Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2154
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1936
9
60
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Scripts
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
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bwakeye
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Urakoze
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Ndagusavye
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Ndasubiza
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
N’agasaga
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Vedda
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ha
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Tanzania
-
How Many People Speak
990,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Shubi
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Tanzania
-
How Many People Speak
153,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
íkiRǔndi
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
rundi
singhalais
German Name
Kirundi
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Sinhalese people
Origin
1500
3
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
8670
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
sin
ISO 639 2/B
run
sin
ISO 639 3
run
sin
ISO 639 6
run
sin
Glottocode
rund1242
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional