Countries
Sri Lanka
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Nigeria
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Yoruba Academy
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 largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5429
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
e dupe
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
e kaasan
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
e kaaro
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Jowo
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
binu
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
bye
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Vedda
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Ede
Where They Speak
-
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
-
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
120
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
singhalais
yoruba
German Name
Singhalesisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Yoruba people
Origin
3
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Western Sudanic
Branch
Indic
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Yorùbá
Language Position
7049
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
yor
ISO 639 2/B
sin
yor
ISO 639 3
sin
yor
ISO 639 6
sin
yor
Glottocode
sinh1246
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating