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 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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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
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
-
-
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?
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
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
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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