Countries
Sri Lanka
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
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.
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
189
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Salom
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Rakhmat
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Qalay siz?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Hayirli tun
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Hayirli kech
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Hayirli kun
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Hayirli tong
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Iltimos
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Kechiring!
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Xayr
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Sizni sevaman
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Iltimos! Menga qarang
Dialect 1
Vedda
Tashkent
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
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How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0032,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Afghan
Where They Speak
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How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0032,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Ferghana
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0032,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million26.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million32.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
singhalais
ouszbek
German Name
Singhalesisch
Usbekisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[oʻzbek]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Uzbek
Origin
3
9th–12th centuries AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Turkic
Branch
Indic
Southestern(Chagatai)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Chagatay
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Uzbek
Language Position
7053
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Uzbek
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
uz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
uzb
ISO 639 2/B
sin
uzb
ISO 639 3
sin
uzb
ISO 639 6
sin
uzb
Glottocode
sinh1246
uzbe1247
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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