Countries
Sri Lanka
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
188
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3629
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Silaw
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Sipas
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Bayanit bash
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Bê zehmet
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bibûre
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Vedda
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
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Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
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Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
singhalais
kurde
German Name
Singhalesisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Kurds
Origin
3
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Kurdish
Language Position
7014
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
kur
ISO 639 2/B
sin
kur
ISO 639 3
sin
kur
ISO 639 6
sin
kur
Glottocode
sinh1246
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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