Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Malta
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5430
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Ħello
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Grazzi
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kif int?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Skużani!
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Ċaw
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Vedda
Qormi
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Malta
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Żejtun
Where They Speak
-
Malta
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Not Present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
12
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Malti
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Malti
French Name
singhalais
maltais
German Name
Singhalesisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Maltese
Origin
3
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Maltese
Language Position
7025
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
sin
mlt
ISO 639 3
sin
mlt
ISO 639 6
sin
mlt
Glottocode
sinh1246
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic