Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Jammu and Kashmir, India
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5448
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks42 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Ke aal aee
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
dhanwaad
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
kiyaan oo ji
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
shub ratri
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
shub ratri
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
शुभ अपराह्न
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
su prabat
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
kripya
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
changa ji pher
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
gustakhi maaf
Dialect 1
Vedda
Jaunsari
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Himachal Pradesh, India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00100,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Kullu
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00110,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Hinduri
Where They Speak
-
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0030,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
18
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million4.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million4.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.30 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
डोगरी
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
French Name
singhalais
dogri
German Name
Singhalesisch
Dogri
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈd̪oːɡri]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Dogras
Origin
3
1971
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Dogri
Language Position
7032
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Dogri
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
doi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
doi
ISO 639 2/B
sin
doi
ISO 639 3
sin
doi
ISO 639 6
sin
doi
Glottocode
sinh1246
indo1311
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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