Countries
Sri Lanka
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
India
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Old German Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5452
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1816
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
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Not present
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
-
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
10
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million14.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
singhalais
sanskrit
German Name
Singhalesisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
3
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Sanskrit
Language Position
7023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
san
ISO 639 2/B
sin
san
ISO 639 3
sin
san
ISO 639 6
sin
san
Glottocode
sinh1246
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic