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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5457
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
187
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3650
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Sawubona
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
unjani
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
bye
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Vedda
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Ndebele
Where They Speak
-
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million12.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
singhalais
zoulou
German Name
Singhalesisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Zulu people
Origin
3
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Deep Zulu
Language Position
7087
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
zul
ISO 639 2/B
sin
zul
ISO 639 3
sin
zul
ISO 639 6
sin
zul
Glottocode
sinh1246
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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