Countries
Sri Lanka
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
India
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5451
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1816
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3635
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Namaskara
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
yedde kaande
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Daya maltadu
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Barpe
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Vedda
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Jain
Where They Speak
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Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Girijan
Where They Speak
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Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million1.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
singhalais
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German Name
Singhalesisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Tuluva
Origin
3
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Tulu
Language Position
7023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
sin
tul
ISO 639 3
sin
tcy
ISO 639 6
sin
tcy
Glottocode
sinh1246
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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