Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
188
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3613
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
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Moi
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Kiitos
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
haluta
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Anteeksi
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Heippa
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Vedda
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Finland
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Rauma
Where They Speak
-
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
-
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million5.40 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Suomi
French Name
singhalais
finnois
German Name
Singhalesisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
ethnic Finns
Origin
3
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Indic
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
standard Finnish
Language Position
7022
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
fin
ISO 639 2/B
sin
fin
ISO 639 3
sin
fin
ISO 639 6
sin
fin
Glottocode
sinh1246
finn1318
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, Synthetic