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 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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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
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?
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)
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
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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