Countries
Sri Lanka
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Sri Lanka
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
German and English Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5426
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Hallo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
dankjewel
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
goede Nacht
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
goedemiddag
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
goedemorgen
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
alsjeblieft
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
sorry
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
vaarwel
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
pardon
Dialect 1
Vedda
Gronings
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
-
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Limburgian
Where They Speak
-
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
17
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million22.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
singhalais
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Singhalesisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Dutch people
Origin
3
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Dutch
Language Position
7048
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
nld
ISO 639 2/B
sin
dut
ISO 639 3
sin
nld
ISO 639 6
sin
nld
Glottocode
sinh1246
mode1257
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic