Countries
India, Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan, Sindh
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
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
- 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
Gujarati
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6454
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1018
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4236
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, 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
Assalam O Alaikum
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Meharbani
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kehra haal aahin
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
tava kia aayo
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Sham Jo Salam
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Assalam o Alaikum
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Subho Bakhair
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Mehrbani
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Moon khe afsos aahe
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Allah Wahi
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Maaf Kajo
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Siraiki
Vedda
Where They Speak
Upper Sindh
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Vicholi
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Central Sindh
-
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Lari
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Lower Sindh
-
How Many People Speak
25.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
29.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
سنڌي
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Sindhi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
sindhi
singhalais
German Name
Sindhi-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[sɪndi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Sindhi people
Sinhalese people
Origin
711 A.D
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Sindhi
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
5070
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sindhi
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sd
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
snd
sin
ISO 639 2/B
snd
sin
ISO 639 3
snd
sin
ISO 639 6
snd
sin
Glottocode
sind1272
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
-
Fusional