Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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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.
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Thai and Lao Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5474
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1814
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3660
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
29
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
zoo hmo
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
zoo tav su
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
thov
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Nyob zoo
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Kuv hlub koj
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
zam txim rau kuv
Dialect 1
Vedda
Hmong Njua
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Laos
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00310,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Hmong Daw
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Hmong Do
Where They Speak
-
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0031,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million4.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million3.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Hmong
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Mong
French Name
singhalais
hmong
German Name
Singhalesisch
Miao-Sprachen
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[môŋ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Hmong people
Origin
3
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Hmong–Mien 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
Hmong
Language Position
7024
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Hmong Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
hmn
ISO 639 2/B
sin
hmn
ISO 639 3
sin
hmv
ISO 639 6
sin
hmn
Glottocode
sinh1246
firs1234
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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