Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Second Language
Sri Lanka
United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
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.
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Mansi and Khanty Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
East and South Slavic Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5440
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1814
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3625
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
szia
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
köszönöm
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Hogy vagy?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Jó Éjszakát
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
jó Estét
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Jó Napot Kívánok
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
jó Reggelt
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Kérlek
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
bocsi
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
viszlát
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Szeretlek
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
elnézést
Dialect 1
Vedda
Csángó
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bacău County, Rumania
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Oberwart
Where They Speak
-
Austria
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0013,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Székely
Where They Speak
-
Székely Land
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
111
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.19 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.07 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
magyar / magyar nyelv
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Magyar
French Name
singhalais
hongrois
German Name
Singhalesisch
Ungarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Hungarians
Origin
3
1192 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Indic
Ugric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Hungarian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Hungarian
Language Position
7066
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Hungarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
hu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
hun
ISO 639 2/B
sin
hun
ISO 639 3
sin
hun
ISO 639 6
sin
hun
Glottocode
sinh1246
hung1274
Linguasphere
No data available
ohu
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic