Countries
Sri Lanka
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Bhutan
Second Language
Sri Lanka
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5495
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3630
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Tsip maza
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Vedda
Laya
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Lunana
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Adap
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million0.17 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
singhalais
dzongkha
German Name
Singhalesisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Ngalop people
Origin
3
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Dzongkha
Language Position
7031
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
sin
dzo
ISO 639 3
sin
dzo
ISO 639 6
sin
dzo
Glottocode
sinh1246
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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