Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
India, Nepal
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5447
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
188
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3622
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari
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)
pranam
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Suprabhaat
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
kripaya
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
maf karai
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Alavidā
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Vedda
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Nepal
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Madhubani
Where They Speak
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North India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Khortha
Where They Speak
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Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
115
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
singhalais
maithili
German Name
Singhalesisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Maithil
Origin
3
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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
Standard Maithili
Language Position
7040
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
mai
ISO 639 2/B
sin
mai
ISO 639 3
sin
mai
ISO 639 6
sin
mai
Glottocode
sinh1246
mait1250
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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