Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Finland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Antartica, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
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.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Norwegian and Danish Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
189
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3618
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
hej
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
tacka dig
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
hur mår du
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
godnatt
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
god kväll
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
god morgon
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
vänligen
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ledsen
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
hej då
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Vedda
Dialects
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Gabon
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Dialects
Where They Speak
-
Georgia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0078,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Dialects
Where They Speak
-
France
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0096,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
179
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million15.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million8.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Svenska
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Ruotsi, Svenska
French Name
singhalais
suédois
German Name
Singhalesisch
Schwedisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Origin
3
13th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Swedish
Language Position
7089
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
sv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
swe
ISO 639 2/B
sin
swe
ISO 639 3
sin
swe
ISO 639 6
sin
swe
Glottocode
sinh1246
swed1254
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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