Countries
European Union, Malta
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
- 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
Western Arabic Dialects
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3054
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
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Grazzi
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kif int?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Skużani!
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Ċaw
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Vedda
Where They Speak
Malta
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
520,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Malta
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
21
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Malti
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
maltais
singhalais
German Name
Maltesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Sinhalese people
Origin
c. 1470
3
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Abric
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Maltese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2570
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
sin
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
sin
ISO 639 3
mlt
sin
ISO 639 6
mlt
sin
Glottocode
malt1254
sinh1246
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional