Countries
Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5448
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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Greetings
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
कृपया
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Vedda
Doteli
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Nepal
How Many People Speak
NA790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
-9999
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Not Available
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
-9999
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Not Available
Nepal
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.25 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
singhalais
népalais
German Name
Singhalesisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
History
Origin
3
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Nepali
Language Position
7059
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
si
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
nep
ISO 639 2/B
sin
nep
ISO 639 3
sin
npi
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sinh1246
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative