Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5426
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1824
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Wu
Where They Speak
-
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Yue
Where They Speak
-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
110
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
singhalais
chinois
German Name
Singhalesisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Han
Origin
3
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Chinese
Language Position
701
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
zho
ISO 639 2/B
sin
chi
ISO 639 3
sin
zho
ISO 639 6
sin
zho
Glottocode
sinh1246
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating