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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
33
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Not Available
1.8 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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
7
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
6 weeks
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Hello
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Thank you
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Good Morning
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Please
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Sorry
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vedda
American English
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
225,000,000.00
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Hiberno-English
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
About Chinese L..
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
4,500,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Welsh English
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
United Kingdom
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
2,500,000.00
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
188
Rank: 34 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
About English L..
16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
1,200.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
5.43 %
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
400.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
400.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
English
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
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5.3.4 French Name
singhalais
anglais
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Englisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
3
5th Century AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
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70
Rank: 49 (Overall)
3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed English
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
si
en
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
sin
eng
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
sin
eng
7.3 ISO 639 3
sin
eng
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
engs
7.5 Glottocode
sinh1246
stan1293
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ABA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Sinhalese and English Alphabets

Sinhalese and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and English. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Sinhalese and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and English languages. The Sinhalese phonology consist Sinhalese vowels and Sinhalese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sinhalese greetings vs English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and English are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sinhalese and English Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sinhalese and English dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and English language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas English Dialects are spoken in different English speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs English Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Not Available. English dialects include: American English , Hiberno-English. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sinhalese and English Speaking population

Sinhalese and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and English languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sinhalese and English on Sinhalese vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and English Language Codes

Sinhalese and English language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and English Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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