Countries
Sri Lanka
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Germany
Second Language
Sri Lanka
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5426
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
369
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
hallo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Danke
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
guten Tag
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
guten Morgen
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
bitte
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Verzeihung
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Tschüs
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Vedda
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Swabian German
Where They Speak
-
Germany
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Texas German
Where They Speak
-
Texas
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million229.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %1.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
singhalais
allemand
German Name
Singhalesisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Germans
Origin
3
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
709
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
deu
ISO 639 2/B
sin
ger
ISO 639 3
sin
deu
ISO 639 6
sin
deus
Glottocode
sinh1246
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic