Countries
Sri Lanka
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5432
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
سلام
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
متشکرم
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
صبح به خیر
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
لطفا
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
متاسف
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Vedda
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
-
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
-
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million65.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.99 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
singhalais
persan
German Name
Singhalesisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Persian people
Origin
3
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Persian
Language Position
7023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
fas
ISO 639 2/B
sin
per
ISO 639 3
sin
pes
ISO 639 6
sin
pers
Glottocode
sinh1246
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic