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Sinhalese

Khasi
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Countries

Countries

Sri Lanka
Meghalaya

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

Sri Lanka
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Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
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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.
  • Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
  • There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.

Similar To

Maldivian Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5423
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

186
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3614
9 60
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Scripts

Sinhala alphabet
Bengali, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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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Greetings

Hello

හලෝ (halō)
Kumno

Thank You

ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Khublei

How Are You?

ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kumno phi long?

Good Night

සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
thia sukh

Good Evening

සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
babha janmiet

Good Afternoon

සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
babha noph-phai-sngi

Good Morning

සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
khublei

Please

කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sngewbha

Sorry

සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Map

Bye

බායි (bāyi)
khublei

I Love You

මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ieit ieit

Excuse Me

මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
map a nga

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vedda
Bhoi

Where They Speak

Sri Lanka
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How Many People Speak

19,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sri Lankan Sinhala
Nonglung

Where They Speak

-
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How Many People Speak

19,000,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese
Cherrapunji

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

15
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million0.84 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

16.00 million0.84 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

සිංහල (sĩhala)
Ka Ktien

Alternative Names

Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia

French Name

singhalais
khasi

German Name

Singhalesisch
Khasi-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈkʰɑsi]

Ethnicity

Sinhalese people
Khasi people

History

Origin

3
1200 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic 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
Khasi

Language Position

7040
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Sinhalese
Khasi Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

si
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sin
kha

ISO 639 2/B

sin
kha

ISO 639 3

sin
kha

ISO 639 6

sin
kha

Glottocode

sinh1246
khas1269

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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Sinhalese and Khasi Alphabets

Sinhalese and Khasi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Khasi. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Khasi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Khasi languages. The Sinhalese phonology consist Sinhalese vowels and Sinhalese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sinhalese greetings vs Khasi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Khasi are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sinhalese and Khasi Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sinhalese and Khasi dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and Khasi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas Khasi Dialects are spoken in different Khasi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs Khasi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Sri Lankan Sinhala. Khasi dialects include: Bhoi , Nonglung. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sinhalese and Khasi Speaking population

Sinhalese and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sinhalese and Khasi on Sinhalese vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Khasi Language Codes

Sinhalese and Khasi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Khasi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.