Countries
Sri Lanka
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Azerbaijan, Gambia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
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.
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Turkish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Osmanly language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5432
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
189
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Salam
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Təşəkkür edirəm
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
necəsən
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
yaxşı gecə
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Axşamınız xeyir
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Günortanız Xeyir
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Sabahınız xeyir
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
lütfən
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
üzr
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
xudafiz
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Mən səni sevirəm
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Bağışlayın
Dialect 1
Vedda
Derbent
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Russia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0037,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Gazakh
Where They Speak
-
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0037,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Baku
Where They Speak
-
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0037.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million26.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.34 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
French Name
singhalais
azéri
German Name
Singhalesisch
Aserbeidschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Azerbaijani
Origin
3
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Turkic
Branch
Indic
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Azerbaijani
Language Position
7038
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Azerbaijani
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
az
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
aze
ISO 639 2/B
sin
aze
ISO 639 3
sin
aze
ISO 639 6
sin
aze
Glottocode
sinh1246
azer1255
Linguasphere
No data available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative