Countries
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5425
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3618
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Baybayin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Kamusta
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Salamat po
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Magandang umaga po
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
pakiusap
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
pinagsisisihan
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Paálam
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Vedda
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Bisalog
Where They Speak
-
Philippines
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Filipino
Where They Speak
-
Philippines
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million73.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million28.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
singhalais
tagalog
German Name
Singhalesisch
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Tagalog people
Origin
3
1593
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Filipino
Language Position
7058
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Tagalog
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
sin
tgl
ISO 639 3
sin
tg1
ISO 639 6
sin
tgl
Glottocode
sinh1246
taga1269
Linguasphere
No data available
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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