Countries
Sri Lanka
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Iran
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Balochi Academy, National Languages 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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Kurdish and Persian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5434
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
188
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3626
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Salam
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
mana bebahgsh
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
chone tao?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
jawáin shap
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
jawáin begáh
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
سلام علیکم
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
jawáin sawáh
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Mihrabani kan
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
bebaksh / bebagsh
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
bye
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Tu mana doost biyeh
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
mana bebahgsh
Dialect 1
Vedda
Eastern Balochi
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Western Balochi
Where They Speak
-
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Southern Balochi
Where They Speak
-
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.003,400,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million8.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
بلوچی
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Baluchi
French Name
singhalais
baloutchi
German Name
Singhalesisch
Belutschisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[bəˈloʧi]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Origin
3
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Balochi
Language Position
7039
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Balochi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
bal
ISO 639 2/B
sin
bal
ISO 639 3
sin
bal
ISO 639 6
sin
bal
Glottocode
sinh1246
balo1260
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-