Countries
Sri Lanka
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Israel
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Israel
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5422
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
180
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3622
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Vedda
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Israel
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
-
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
-
Israel
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
17
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
singhalais
hébreu
German Name
Singhalesisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
3
1000 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
7023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
heb
ISO 639 2/B
sin
heb
ISO 639 3
sin
heb
ISO 639 6
sin
heb
Glottocode
sinh1246
hebr1246
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic