Countries
Sri Lanka
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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)
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5424
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Habari
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Asante
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Habari gani?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
tafadhali
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
pole
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
bye
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Vedda
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Kimrima
Where They Speak
-
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Kimgao
Where They Speak
-
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
112
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million150.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million75.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Kiswahili
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
singhalais
swahili
German Name
Singhalesisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[swaˈhili]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
3
6th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Swahili
Language Position
7021
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Swahili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
sw
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
swa
ISO 639 2/B
sin
swa
ISO 639 3
sin
swa
ISO 639 6
sin
swa
Glottocode
sinh1246
swah1254
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-m
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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