Countries
Sri Lanka
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
France, Spain
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Euskaltzaindia, 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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Spanish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5427
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Kaixo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Zer moduz?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Gabon
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Egun on
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Mesedez
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Barkatu
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Agur
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Vedda
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
France
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Souletin
Where They Speak
-
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Biscayan
Where They Speak
-
Spain
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million7.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Euskara
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
singhalais
basque
German Name
Singhalesisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Basque people
Origin
3
c. 1000
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Basque
Language Position
7030
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
si
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
eus
ISO 639 2/B
sin
baq
ISO 639 3
sin
eus
ISO 639 6
sin
eus
Glottocode
sinh1246
basq1248
Linguasphere
No data available
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative