Countries
Sri Lanka
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
10
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
India
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
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.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5443
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1811
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3634
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
-
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
113
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.43 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million40.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
singhalais
bhojpuri
German Name
Singhalesisch
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
3
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Bhojpuri
Language Position
7037
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
bho
ISO 639 2/B
sin
bho
ISO 639 3
sin
bho
ISO 639 6
sin
bho
Glottocode
sinh1246
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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