Countries
Sri Lanka
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Finnish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5427
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
189
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3618
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Tere
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
aitäh
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Head ööd
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Tere päevast
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Tere hommikust
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Palun
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Vabandust
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Head aega
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Vedda
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Tartu
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Idamurre
Where They Speak
-
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
18
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Eesti keel
French Name
singhalais
estonien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Estonians
Origin
3
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Indic
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Estonian
Language Position
7022
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
est
ISO 639 2/B
sin
est
ISO 639 3
sin
est
ISO 639 6
sin
est
Glottocode
sinh1246
esto1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative