Countries
Sri Lanka
Haiti
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Sri Lanka
Haiti
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Central America, North America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Cuba
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
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.
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
Similar To
Maldivian Language
French Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5429
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
187
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Bonjou
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Mèsi
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kijan ou yé?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Bon nwit
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Bonswa
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Bon apre-midi
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Bon apre-midi
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Souple
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Dezole
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Babay
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Mwen renmen w
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Eskize m
Dialect 1
Vedda
Northern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Cap-Haitien
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Central Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
-
Port-au-Prince
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Southern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
-
Cayes
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0012,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million9.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million9.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Kreyòl ayisyen
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
French Name
singhalais
haïtien; créole haïtien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[kɣejɔl]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Haitians
Origin
3
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Haitian Creole
Language Position
7099
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
ht
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
hat
ISO 639 2/B
sin
hat
ISO 639 3
sin
hat
ISO 639 6
sin
hat
Glottocode
sinh1246
hait1244
Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAC-cb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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