Countries
Countries
Burkina Faso
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2654
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
818
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1636
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Kia ora
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Laafi bala
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Ne y yungo
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
ne y zabre
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
gafare
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
gafare
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Y gafare
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Vedda
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
-
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Taolende
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
-
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
81
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.60 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Mosse
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
moré
singhalais
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Sinhalese people
History
Origin
11th Century AD
3
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Mossi
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3770
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
No data Available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
sin
ISO 639 2/B
mos
sin
ISO 639 3
mos
sin
ISO 639 6
mos
sin
Glottocode
moss1236
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional