Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
- 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
Chinese and Japanese languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4054
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2118
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1936
9
60
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Scripts
Hangul
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Jeju
Vedda
Where They Speak
South Korea
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
10,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
South Korea
-
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
-
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
77.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.14 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
77.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
coréen
singhalais
German Name
Koreanisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Sinhalese people
Origin
Before 1st century
3
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
1270
1
120
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Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ko
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
sin
ISO 639 2/B
kor
sin
ISO 639 3
Kor
sin
ISO 639 6
kor
sin
Glottocode
kore1280
sinh1246
Linguasphere
45-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional