Countries
Sri Lanka
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Japan
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Korean Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5499
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3614
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Hakata
Where They Speak
-
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Kansai
Where They Speak
-
kansai
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
131
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
日本語
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Nihongo
French Name
singhalais
japonais
German Name
Singhalesisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
3
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Japanese
Language Position
708
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
sin
jpn
ISO 639 3
sin
jpn
ISO 639 6
sin
jpn
Glottocode
sinh1246
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic