Countries
Sri Lanka
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5421
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3619
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
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 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Bwakeye
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Urakoze
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Mwaramutse
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ndagusavye
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Ndasubiza
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
N’agasaga
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Vedda
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Ha
Where They Speak
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Tanzania
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Shubi
Where They Speak
-
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million8.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
singhalais
rundi
German Name
Singhalesisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
3
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo 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
Kirundi
Language Position
7086
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
si
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
run
ISO 639 2/B
sin
run
ISO 639 3
sin
run
ISO 639 6
sin
run
Glottocode
sinh1246
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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