Countries
Sri Lanka
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Abkhazia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5462
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
182
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3660
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
амритана
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Амарахь
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
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Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
-
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Sadz
Where They Speak
-
Turkey
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
singhalais
abkhaze
German Name
Singhalesisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Abkhaz people
Origin
3
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Abkhaz
Language Position
7028
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
abk
ISO 639 2/B
sin
abk
ISO 639 3
sin
abk
ISO 639 6
sin
abks
Glottocode
sinh1246
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative