Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ethiopia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- 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
Somali Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3454
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1018
0
32
👆🏻
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
52
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
akkam
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Galatoomi
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Maaloo
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
naa dhiisi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Nagayattii!
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Borana
Vedda
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Orma
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Kenya
-
How Many People Speak
66,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wata
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Kenya
-
How Many People Speak
13,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
171
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.36 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
galla
singhalais
German Name
Galla-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ɔrɔmɔ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Oromos
Sinhalese people
Origin
16
3
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
9170
1
120
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Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
om
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
orm
sin
ISO 639 2/B
orm
sin
ISO 639 3
orm
sin
ISO 639 6
orm
sin
Glottocode
nucl1736
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