Countries
Sri Lanka
China
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
China
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5436
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
189
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3627
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
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)
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
rakhmat
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
birdam
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
kachurung
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Khayr khosh
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Vedda
Turpan
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
China
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Hotan
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
17
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
singhalais
ouïgour
German Name
Singhalesisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Uyghur
Origin
3
11
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Uyghur
Language Position
7098
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
si
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
uig
ISO 639 2/B
sin
uig
ISO 639 3
sin
uig
ISO 639 6
sin
uig
Glottocode
sinh1246
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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