Countries
Sri Lanka
Madagascar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Sri Lanka
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
-
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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Swahili and Comorian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5421
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Salama!
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Misaotra
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Manao ahoana!
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Alina tsara
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Manao ahoana e
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Manao ahoana e
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Maraina tsara
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
azafady
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Miala tsiny
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Veloma!
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Tiako ianao.
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Azafady
Dialect 1
Vedda
Eastern Malagasy
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Merina
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Western Malagasy
Where They Speak
-
Sakalava
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Plateau Malagasy
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
12
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.28 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million18.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million18.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Fiteny Malagasy
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Malagasy Sign Language
French Name
singhalais
malgache
German Name
Singhalesisch
Malagassi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Malagasy people
Origin
3
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Austronesian
Branch
Indic
Indonesian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
standard Malagasy
Language Position
7084
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Malagasy Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
mg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
mlg
ISO 639 2/B
sin
mlg
ISO 639 3
sin
mlg
ISO 639 6
sin
mlg
Glottocode
sinh1246
mala1537
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Object-Subject
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-