Countries
Sri Lanka
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Ethiopia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
187
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3631
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Ethiopic
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)
Selam
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
i'bakwon
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
aznallehu
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
tschao
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Vedda
Gondar
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Gondar
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Gojjami
Where They Speak
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Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Showa
Where They Speak
-
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
15
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
singhalais
amharique
German Name
Singhalesisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Amharas
Origin
3
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Amharic
Language Position
7055
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
amh
ISO 639 2/B
sin
amh
ISO 639 3
sin
amh
ISO 639 6
sin
amh
Glottocode
sinh1246
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional