Countries
India
Sri Lanka
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
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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
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
India
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Not present
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Dialect 3
Not present
Up-Country Sinhalese
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
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Santali
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
Glottocode
sant1410
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional
Santali and Sinhalese Speaking population
Santali and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Santali and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Santali and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Santali language is 0.02 % 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 Santali and Sinhalese on Santali vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Santali and Sinhalese Language Codes
Santali and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Santali and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.