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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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10
Rank: 6 (Overall)
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Portugal
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
23
Rank: 5 (Overall)
54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
About Thai Lang..
9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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19
Rank: 9 (Overall)
36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Olá
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
obrigado
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Como você está?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
boa noite
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
boa Noite
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
bom Dia
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Por Favor
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
pesaroso
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
tchau
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
Eu te amo
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
desculpe me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Brazil
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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204,000,000.00
Rank: 4 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Portugal
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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10,000,000.00
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
About Swedish L..
4,000.00
Rank: 36 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
26
Rank: 22 (Overall)
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
About English L..
231.00 million
Rank: 7 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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3.27 %
Rank: 7 (Overall)
0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
About Chinese L..
216.00 million
Rank: 5 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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15.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall)
2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
Português
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Português
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
portugais
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Portugiesisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
3rd Century
3
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Medieval Galician
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Portuguese
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
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6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
70
Rank: 49 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
pt
si
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
por
sin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
por
sin
7.3 ISO 639 3
por
sin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
port1283
sinh1246
7.6 Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional

Portuguese and Sinhalese Alphabets

Portuguese and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Portuguese and Sinhalese. In Portuguese Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Portuguese and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Portuguese and Sinhalese languages. The Portuguese phonology consist Portuguese vowels and Portuguese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Portuguese greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Portuguese and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Portuguese and Sinhalese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Portuguese and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Portuguese and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Portuguese are spoken in different Portuguese Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Portuguese vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Portuguese dialects include: Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Portuguese and Sinhalese Speaking population

Portuguese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Portuguese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Portuguese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Portuguese and Sinhalese on Portuguese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Portuguese and Sinhalese Language Codes

Portuguese and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Portuguese and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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