Countries
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
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)
Commission on the Filipino 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.
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5432
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Ilokano Braille, Latin
Writing Direction
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)
Kablaaw
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Agyamanak
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kumusta?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Naimbag a rabii
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Naimbag a sardam
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Naimbag a malem
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Naimbag a bigat
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
mangngegda
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Agpakawanak
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Pakada
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ayayatenka
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Maawan-dayawen
Dialect 1
Vedda
Balangao
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Philippines
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0021,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Bontoc
Where They Speak
-
Philippines
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0041,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Not present
Where They Speak
-
Not present
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.008,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
12
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million9.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million9.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
ilokano
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Ilokano, Iloko
French Name
singhalais
ilocano
German Name
Singhalesisch
Ilokano-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[iːloˈkɑno]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Ilocano people
Origin
3
18th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Ilocano
Language Position
7094
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Ilocano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
ilo
ISO 639 2/B
sin
ilo
ISO 639 3
sin
ilo
ISO 639 6
sin
ilo
Glottocode
sinh1246
ilok1237
Linguasphere
No data available
31-CBA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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