Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan, Sindh
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)
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
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.
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Gujarati
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5464
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3642
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Devanagari
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)
Assalam O Alaikum
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Meharbani
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kehra haal aahin
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
tava kia aayo
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Sham Jo Salam
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Assalam o Alaikum
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Subho Bakhair
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Mehrbani
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Moon khe afsos aahe
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Allah Wahi
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Maaf Kajo
Dialect 1
Vedda
Siraiki
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Upper Sindh
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0025,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Vicholi
Where They Speak
-
Central Sindh
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0025,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Lari
Where They Speak
-
Lower Sindh
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0025.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million29.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
سنڌي
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Sindhi
French Name
singhalais
sindhi
German Name
Singhalesisch
Sindhi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[sɪndi]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Sindhi people
Origin
3
711 A.D
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Sindhi
Language Position
7050
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Sindhi
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
sd
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
snd
ISO 639 2/B
sin
snd
ISO 639 3
sin
snd
ISO 639 6
sin
snd
Glottocode
sinh1246
sind1272
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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