Countries
Sri Lanka
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Turkey
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5429
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
188
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3621
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Merhaba
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Nasılsın?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Tünaydın
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
günaydın
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
lütfen
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
üzgünüm
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Hoşçakal
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Vedda
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
-
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Gagauz
Where They Speak
-
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
19
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
singhalais
turc
German Name
Singhalesisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Turkish
Origin
3
c. 1350
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Turkic
Branch
Indic
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
7019
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
tur
ISO 639 2/B
sin
tur
ISO 639 3
sin
tur
ISO 639 6
sin
tur
Glottocode
sinh1246
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic