Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5431
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
187
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
alo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
multumesc
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
ce mai faci?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
noapte Buna
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
buna Ziua
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
bună Dimineața
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Vă Rog
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
scuze
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
La revedere
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Vedda
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
-
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
-
Croatia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
110
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Română
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
singhalais
roumain; moldave
German Name
Singhalesisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Romanians
Origin
3
1521
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Romanian
Language Position
7036
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
ron
ISO 639 2/B
sin
rum
ISO 639 3
sin
ron
ISO 639 6
sin
ron
Glottocode
sinh1246
roma1327
Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic