Countries
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5427
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
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 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Halo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
piye kabare?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Sugeng énjing
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
matur nuwun
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Vedda
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Cirebon
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Arekan
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
116
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
singhalais
javanais
German Name
Singhalesisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
3
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Javanese
Language Position
7011
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
jav
ISO 639 2/B
sin
jav
ISO 639 3
sin
jav
ISO 639 6
sin
jav
Glottocode
sinh1246
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative