Countries
Sri Lanka
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
South Africa
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5453
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3643
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Molo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Unjani
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Molo
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ndicela
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Vedda
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
South Africa
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Thembu
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Hlubi
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
19
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
singhalais
xhosa
German Name
Singhalesisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
3
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
isiXhosa
Language Position
7021
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
xho
ISO 639 2/B
sin
xho
ISO 639 3
sin
xho
ISO 639 6
sin
xho
Glottocode
sinh1246
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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