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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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Rank: 11 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
1.8 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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
    1.9 Similar To
    Maldivian Language
    Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
    1.10 Derived From
    Sanskrit Language
    Arabic Language
    2 Alphabets
    2.1 Alphabets in
    2.2 Alphabets
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    54
    Rank: 33 (Overall)
    24
    Rank: 6 (Overall)
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    2.3 Phonology
    2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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    18
    Rank: 15 (Overall)
    5
    Rank: 2 (Overall)
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    2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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    36
    Rank: 26 (Overall)
    21
    Rank: 11 (Overall)
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    2.4 Scripts
    Sinhala alphabet
    Latin
    2.5 Writing Direction
    Left-To-Right, Horizontal
    Not Available
    2.6 Hard to Learn
    2.6.1 Language Levels
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    Rank: 1 (Overall)
    3
    Rank: 2 (Overall)
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    2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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    44 weeks
    Rank: 11 (Overall)
    36 weeks
    Rank: 10 (Overall)
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    3 Greetings
    3.1 Hello
    හලෝ (halō)
    Habari
    3.2 Thank You
    ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
    Asante
    3.3 How Are You?
    ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
    Habari gani?
    3.4 Good Night
    සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
    Usiku mwema
    3.5 Good Evening
    සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
    Habari za jioni
    3.6 Good Afternoon
    සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
    nzuri Alasiri
    3.7 Good Morning
    සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
    Habari za asubuhi
    3.8 Please
    කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
    tafadhali
    3.9 Sorry
    සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
    pole
    3.10 Bye
    බායි (bāyi)
    bye
    3.11 I Love You
    මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
    nakupenda
    3.12 Excuse Me
    මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
    Samahani
    4 Dialects
    4.1 Dialect 1
    Vedda
    Kiunguja
    4.1.1 Where They Speak
    Sri Lanka
    Zanzibar island
    4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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    4.2 Dialect 2
    Not Available
    Kimrima
    4.2.1 Where They Speak
    Not Available
    Dar es Salaam
    4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
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    4.3 Dialect 3
    Not Available
    Kimgao
    4.3.1 Where They Speak
    Not Available
    Kilwa
    4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
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    4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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    1
    Rank: 1 (Overall)
    12
    Rank: 12 (Overall)
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    5 How Many People Speak
    5.1 How Many People Speak?
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    16.00 million
    Rank: 45 (Overall)
    150.00 million
    Rank: 13 (Overall)
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    5.2 Speaking Population
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    0.25 %
    Rank: 41 (Overall)
    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
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    5.3 Native Speakers
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    16.00 million
    Rank: 39 (Overall)
    15.00 million
    Rank: 40 (Overall)
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    5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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    2.00 million
    Rank: 34 (Overall)
    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
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    5.3.2 Native Name
    සිංහල (sĩhala)
    Not Available
    5.3.3 Alternative Names
    Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
    Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
    5.3.4 French Name
    singhalais
    swahili
    5.3.5 German Name
    Singhalesisch
    Swahili
    5.4 Pronunciation
    Not Available
    Not Available
    5.5 Ethnicity
    Sinhalese people
    Swahili people or Waswahili
    6 History
    6.1 Origin
    3
    6th century
    6.2 Language Family
    Indo-European Family
    Niger-Congo Family
    6.2.1 Subgroup
    Indo-Iranian
    Benue-Congo
    6.2.2 Branch
    Indic
    Bantu
    6.3 Language Forms
    6.3.1 Early Forms
    Sinhalese Prakrit
    No early forms
    6.3.2 Standard Forms
    Modern Sinhalese
    Swahili
    6.3.3 Language Position
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    6.3.4 Signed Forms
    Not Available
    Not Available
    6.4 Scope
    Individual
    Individual, Macrolanguage
    7 Code
    7.1 ISO 639 1
    si
    sw
    7.2 ISO 639 2
    7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
    sin
    swa
    7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
    sin
    swa
    7.3 ISO 639 3
    sin
    swa
    7.4 ISO 639 6
    Not Available
    Not Available
    7.5 Glottocode
    sinh1246
    swah1254
    7.6 Linguasphere
    No data available
    99-AUS-m
    7.7 Types of Language
    7.7.1 Language Type
    Living
    Living
    7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
    Subject-Object-Verb
    Not Available
    7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
    Fusional
    Not Available

    Sinhalese and Swahili Alphabets

    Sinhalese and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Swahili. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Swahili languages. The Sinhalese phonology consist Sinhalese vowels and Sinhalese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sinhalese greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

    All Sinhalese and Swahili Dialects

    Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sinhalese and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Not Available. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

    Sinhalese and Swahili Speaking population

    Sinhalese and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sinhalese and Swahili on Sinhalese vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

    Sinhalese and Swahili Language Codes

    Sinhalese and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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