Countries
Sri Lanka
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Armenian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5424
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
187
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Greece
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Griko
Where They Speak
-
Italy
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Mariupol
Where They Speak
-
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
125
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
singhalais
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Singhalesisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
3
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Hellenic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Greek
Language Position
7074
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
ell
ISO 639 2/B
sin
gre
ISO 639 3
sin
ell
ISO 639 6
sin
ells
Glottocode
sinh1246
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic