Countries
Sri Lanka
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Ghana
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Akan Orthography Committee
Interesting Facts
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5421
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3616
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
ete-sen
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
meda ase
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
maadwo
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
maadwo
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
maaha
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
maakye
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
wae
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Kafra
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
bye
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Vedda
Asante
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Ghana
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Akuapem
Where They Speak
-
Ghana
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Fante
Where They Speak
-
Ghana
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Akan
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Twi, Fante
French Name
singhalais
akan
German Name
Singhalesisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Akan people
Origin
3
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Akan
Language Position
70104
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
aka
ISO 639 2/B
sin
aka
ISO 639 3
sin
aka
ISO 639 6
sin
aka
Glottocode
sinh1246
akan1251
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-