Countries
Sri Lanka
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Zambia
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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Zulu language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5431
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3618
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
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks32 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Moni
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Zikomo
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Masana abwino
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
M'mawa wabwino
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Chonde
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
pepani
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
anatsanzikana
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Pepani
Dialect 1
Vedda
Kasungu
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
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Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
-
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
15
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million12.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.17 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million12.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
singhalais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Singhalesisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Chewa people
Origin
3
15th 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
Chewa
Language Position
7027
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
nya
ISO 639 2/B
sin
nya
ISO 639 3
sin
nya
ISO 639 6
sin
nya
Glottocode
sinh1246
nyan1308
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
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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