Countries
India
Sri Lanka
National Language
India
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
Govenment of Goa
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- 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
Marathi
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Namaskar
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Not Available
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Chike
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Maf kor
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
Goa
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Not present
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
konkani
singhalais
German Name
Konkani
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
Not Available
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Kokani
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
goan1235
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Konkani and Sinhalese Speaking population
Konkani and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Konkani and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Konkani and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Konkani and Sinhalese on Konkani vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Konkani and Sinhalese Language Codes
Konkani and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Konkani and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.