Countries
New Zealand
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
New Zealand
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Australia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Māori Language Commission
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
- 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
Tahitian Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2054
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Mauruuru koutou
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
E pēhea ana koe ?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Night pai
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
pai ahiahi
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Afternoon pai
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Morning pai
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Tēnā
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Aroha mai
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
poroporoaki
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Aroha ahau ki a koe
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
tukua ahau
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
South Island Māori
Vedda
Where They Speak
New Zealand
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
150,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western North Island Maori
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
New Zealand
-
How Many People Speak
150,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
New Zealand
-
How Many People Speak
150,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.18 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.18 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.10 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
te Reo Māori
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
maori
singhalais
German Name
Maori-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaɔɾi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Māori people
Sinhalese people
Origin
1814
3
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Polynesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Maori
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2670
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maori Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mi
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mri
sin
ISO 639 2/B
mao
sin
ISO 639 3
mri
sin
ISO 639 6
mri
sin
Glottocode
maor1246
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional