Countries
Sri Lanka
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Nigeria
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5436
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
188
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3628
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
kedụ
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
dalụ
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Biko
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Ndo
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Kachifo
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Vedda
Enuani
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Ngwa
Where They Speak
-
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
120
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
igbo
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Ibo
French Name
singhalais
igbo
German Name
Singhalesisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Igbo people
Origin
3
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Kwa
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Igbo
Language Position
7057
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
sin
ibo
ISO 639 3
sin
ibo
ISO 639 6
sin
ibo
Glottocode
sinh1246
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative