Countries
United States of America
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
United States of America
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
North America
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
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
- 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
Apache Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3654
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3436
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
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Yá'át'ééh
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Ahéhee'
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
T'aa shoodi
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Nízhdził
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Hágoónee’
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Shoohá
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Navajo1
Vedda
Where They Speak
Arizona
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
170,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Navajo2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
New Mexico
-
How Many People Speak
170,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Navajo3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Utah
-
How Many People Speak
120,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.70 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.17 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Navaho
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
navaho
singhalais
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈnævəhoʊ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Navajo people
Sinhalese people
Origin
1500 CE
3
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Athapascan
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Navajo
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nv
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nav
sin
ISO 639 2/B
nav
sin
ISO 639 3
nav
sin
ISO 639 6
nav
sin
Glottocode
nava1243
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
Fusional