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Countries

Countries

Sri Lanka
Assam, India

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Sri Lanka
Assam, India

Second Language

Sri Lanka
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Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
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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.
  • In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
  • Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.

Similar To

Maldivian Language
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5445
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1820
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3625
9 60
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Scripts

Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

25
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks34 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

හලෝ (halō)
नमस्कार

Thank You

ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
धन्यवाद

How Are You?

ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Nungni khabora ma?

Good Night

සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)

Good Evening

සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
बोडो

Good Afternoon

සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
अन्धानि बार

Good Morning

සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)

Please

කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
अननानै (Onnanwi)

Sorry

සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
दु:खित

Bye

බායි (bāyi)
Lwrbw

I Love You

මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)

Excuse Me

මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
दु:खित

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vedda
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect

Where They Speak

Sri Lanka
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sri Lankan Sinhala
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect

Where They Speak

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Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.001,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect

Where They Speak

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Assam, India, Nepal

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.001,300,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

13
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million0.60 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

16.00 million0.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

සිංහල (sĩhala)
बड़ो (boṛo)

Alternative Names

Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci

French Name

singhalais
bodo

German Name

Singhalesisch
Bodo

Pronunciation

[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[bɔɽo]

Ethnicity

Sinhalese people
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)

History

Origin

3
1913

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman

Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Sinhalese Prakrit
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Standard Forms

Modern Sinhalese
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Language Position

7030
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Sinhalese
Signed Bodo

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

si
br

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sin
brx

ISO 639 2/B

sin
brx

ISO 639 3

sin
brx

ISO 639 6

sin
brx

Glottocode

sinh1246
bodo1269

Linguasphere

No data available
59-AAB

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
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Sinhalese and Bodo Alphabets

Sinhalese and Bodo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Bodo. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Bodo Alphabets there are 45 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Bodo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Bodo languages. The Sinhalese phonology consist Sinhalese vowels and Sinhalese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sinhalese greetings vs Bodo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Bodo are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sinhalese and Bodo Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sinhalese and Bodo dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and Bodo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas Bodo Dialects are spoken in different Bodo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs Bodo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Sri Lankan Sinhala. Bodo dialects include: (Sønabari) Western Boro dialect , (Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sinhalese and Bodo Speaking population

Sinhalese and Bodo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Bodo languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Bodo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Bodo language is 0.01 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sinhalese and Bodo on Sinhalese vs Bodo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Bodo Language Codes

Sinhalese and Bodo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Bodo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.