Countries
Rajastan, India
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Rajastan, India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Nepal, Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
- 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
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Gujarati Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1018
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3236
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
khammaghani
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
dhanyavaad
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kikan ho sa?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
shubh raatri
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Shubh Honjh
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Shubh Befar
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Shubh Havar
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
kirpa
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Maaf Karo
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
bye
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
main tanne pyaar karoon
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
maaf karo
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Jogi
Vedda
Where They Speak
India
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
14,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bagri
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
14,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Dhundhari
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
81
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
22.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.21 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Marwari
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
marvari
singhalais
German Name
Marwari
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[məˈrwɑːɾi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Marwari or Marwadi
Sinhalese people
Origin
16
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Marwari
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
7270
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mwr
sin
ISO 639 2/B
mwr
sin
ISO 639 3
mwr
sin
ISO 639 6
mwr
sin
Glottocode
raja1256
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