Countries
Sri Lanka
Wales
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Wales
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Argentina, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Welsh Language Commissioner
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.
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
English Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
British Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
187
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Helô
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Diolch
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Sut ydych chi?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Nos da
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Noswaith dda
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
P'nawn da
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Bore da
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
os gwelwch yn dda
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Hwyl
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Dw i'n dy garu di
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Esgusodwch fi
Dialect 1
Vedda
Patagonian Welsh
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Argentina
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0038,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Y Wyndodeg
Where They Speak
-
Gwynedd
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Y Bowyseg
Where They Speak
-
Powys
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
18
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Cymraeg
French Name
singhalais
gallois
German Name
Singhalesisch
Kymrisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Welsh people
Origin
3
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Celtic
Branch
Indic
Brythonic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Welsh
Language Position
7031
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Welsh Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
cy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
cym
ISO 639 2/B
sin
wel
ISO 639 3
sin
cym
ISO 639 6
sin
cym
Glottocode
sinh1246
wels1247
Linguasphere
No data available
50-ABA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional