Countries
Sri Lanka
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3628
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Kartlian
Where They Speak
-
Kartli
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Pshavian
Where They Speak
-
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
120
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
singhalais
géorgien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Georgians
Origin
3
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Southern
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Georgian
Language Position
70120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
si
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
kat
ISO 639 2/B
sin
geo
ISO 639 3
sin
kat
ISO 639 6
sin
kat
Glottocode
sinh1246
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic