Countries
Sri Lanka
East Asia, European Union, South America
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
East Asia, European Union
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Akademio de Esperanto
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.
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Latin and Italian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5432
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3627
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 weeks6 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Halo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Dankon
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kiel vi sanas?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Bonan nokton
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Bonan vesperon
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Bonan posttagmezon
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Bonan matenon
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Mi petas
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Mi bedaŭras!
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Ĝis poste
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Mi amas vin
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Pardonu!
Dialect 1
Vedda
Not present
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Not present
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Not present
Where They Speak
-
Not present
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Not present
Where They Speak
-
Not present
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.002,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
10
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million2.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million0.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Esperanto
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
French Name
singhalais
espéranto
German Name
Singhalesisch
Esperanto
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[espeˈranto]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Esperanto speakers
Origin
3
1887
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Esperanto
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Esperanto
Language Position
7033
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signuno
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
eo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
epo
ISO 639 2/B
sin
epo
ISO 639 3
sin
epo
ISO 639 6
sin
epo
Glottocode
sinh1246
espe1235
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Constructed
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative