Countries
Sri Lanka
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5437
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3646
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
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Mhoro
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Masikati
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Mangwanani
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Ndineurombo
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
bye
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Vedda
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Karanga
Where They Speak
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southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Zezuru
Where They Speak
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central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
14
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 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
singhalais
shona
German Name
Singhalesisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Shona people
Origin
3
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Shona
Language Position
70107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
sna
ISO 639 2/B
sin
sna
ISO 639 3
sin
sna
ISO 639 6
sin
sna
Glottocode
sinh1246
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
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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