Countries
Sri Lanka
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Munda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5430
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Henda ho
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
संध्यायान
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Boge Setak’
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
দয়া করে
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
দুঃখিত
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Hariau
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Vedda
Mahali
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
11
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
singhalais
santal
German Name
Singhalesisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
3
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Santali
Language Position
7041
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
sat
ISO 639 2/B
sin
sat
ISO 639 3
sin
sat
ISO 639 6
sin
sat
Glottocode
sinh1246
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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