Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Sri Lanka
Pakistan
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5452
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3640
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
خوش آمديد
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
گڈ مارننگ
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
معاف کرنا
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
الوداع
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Vedda
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Rekhta
Where They Speak
-
South Asia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bihari
French Name
singhalais
ourdou
German Name
Singhalesisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
3
12th Century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
7020
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
urd
ISO 639 2/B
sin
urd
ISO 639 3
sin
urd
ISO 639 6
sin
urd
Glottocode
sinh1246
urdu1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional