Countries
Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
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
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
- 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
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3754
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4636
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Mhoro
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Waita zvako
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Manheru
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Masikati
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Mangwanani
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Ndineurombo
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
bye
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Vedda
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
-
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Zezuru
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
-
How Many People Speak
16.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
shona
singhalais
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Sinhalese people
Origin
20th century
3
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
10770
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
sin
ISO 639 2/B
sna
sin
ISO 639 3
sna
sin
ISO 639 6
sna
sin
Glottocode
core1255
sinh1246
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional