Countries
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Philippines
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)
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5421
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3616
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Hoy
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Salamat
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Maayong Buntag
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Palihug
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Ikasubo ko
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Babay
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Vedda
Boholano
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bohol
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
-
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
North Kana
Where They Speak
-
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Visayan
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
singhalais
cebuano
German Name
Singhalesisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Cebuano people
Origin
3
16th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
7062
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
sin
ceb
ISO 639 3
sin
ceb
ISO 639 6
sin
ceb
Glottocode
sinh1246
cebu1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-