Countries
Sri Lanka
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Ethiopia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Somali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5434
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
akkam
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Maaloo
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
naa dhiisi
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Vedda
Borana
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Orma
Where They Speak
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Kenya
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Wata
Where They Speak
-
Kenya
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
117
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.36 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
singhalais
galla
German Name
Singhalesisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Oromos
Origin
3
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
7091
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
orm
ISO 639 2/B
sin
orm
ISO 639 3
sin
orm
ISO 639 6
sin
orm
Glottocode
sinh1246
nucl1736
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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