Countries
India
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3054
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, 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
Henda ho
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Adi Johar
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Boge Ninda
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
দয়া করে
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
দুঃখিত
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Hariau
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Mahali
Vedda
Where They Speak
India
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
11
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
6.30 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
santal
singhalais
German Name
Santali
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Sinhalese people
Origin
20th century
3
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Santali
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
4170
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
sin
ISO 639 2/B
sat
sin
ISO 639 3
sat
sin
ISO 639 6
sat
sin
Glottocode
sant1410
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
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Fusional