Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
- 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
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2336
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
سلام
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
متشکرم
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
شب بخیر
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
لطفا
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
متاسف
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
خدا حافظ
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Afganistan
-
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
-
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
persan
singhalais
German Name
Persisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Sinhalese people
Origin
1500 BC
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Iranian
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Persian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2370
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fa
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
sin
ISO 639 2/B
per
sin
ISO 639 3
pes
sin
ISO 639 6
pers
sin
Glottocode
fars1254
sinh1246
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional