Countries
India
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
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
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Not present
Vedda
Where They Speak
-
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
140,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
140,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
140,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
01
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
sanskrit
singhalais
German Name
Sanskrit
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Sinhalese people
Origin
2000 B.C.
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2370
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
sin
ISO 639 2/B
san
sin
ISO 639 3
san
sin
ISO 639 6
san
sin
Glottocode
sans1269
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional