Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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 Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5425
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
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
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Halo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Hvala
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kako se imate?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Lahko noč
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Dober dan
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Dobro jutro
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Prosim
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Oprostite
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Nasvidenje
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Vedda
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Resian
Where They Speak
-
Italy
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Styrian
Where They Speak
-
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
148
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
singhalais
slovène
German Name
Singhalesisch
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Slovenes
Origin
3
972-1093
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Slovene
Language Position
7028
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
slv
ISO 639 2/B
sin
slv
ISO 639 3
sin
slv
ISO 639 6
sin
slv
Glottocode
sinh1246
slov1268
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional