Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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
Indonesian Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Tamil Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2654
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2436
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
Hai
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
terima kasih
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
sila
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
maaf
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Vedda
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
30,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
241
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
175.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
malais
singhalais
German Name
Malaiisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Sinhalese people
Origin
c. 683 AD
3
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
5470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
sin
ISO 639 2/B
may
sin
ISO 639 3
zsm
sin
ISO 639 6
may
sin
Glottocode
stan1306
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