Countries
Sri Lanka
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Somalia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5426
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Hello
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Fadlan
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
sorry
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Vedda
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Benaadir
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
-
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
singhalais
somali
German Name
Singhalesisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Somalis
Origin
3
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Somali
Language Position
7083
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
som
ISO 639 2/B
sin
som
ISO 639 3
sin
som
ISO 639 6
sin
som
Glottocode
sinh1246
soma1255
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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