Countries
Sri Lanka
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
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
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, 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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5447
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
188
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3631
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Kharwa
Where They Speak
-
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Surati
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
18
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
singhalais
goudjrati
German Name
Singhalesisch
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Gujaratis
Origin
3
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
7023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
guj
ISO 639 2/B
sin
guj
ISO 639 3
sin
guj
ISO 639 6
sin
guj
Glottocode
sinh1246
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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