Countries
Sri Lanka
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
India
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Central Hindi Directorate
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Urdu
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5444
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1811
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3633
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Marwari
Where They Speak
-
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Bundeli
Where They Speak
-
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
singhalais
hindi
German Name
Singhalesisch
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Hindustani people
Origin
3
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Hindi
Language Position
705
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
hin
ISO 639 2/B
sin
hin
ISO 639 3
sin
hin
ISO 639 6
sin
hins
Glottocode
sinh1246
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic