Countries
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Malay language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5426
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3619
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
27
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Halo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Terima kasih
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Apa kabar?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Selamat Pagi
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
mohon Untuk
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
maaf
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Permisi
Dialect 1
Vedda
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Balinese
Where They Speak
-
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
146
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million23.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
singhalais
indonésien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Indonesians
Origin
3
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Indonesian
Language Position
7056
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
ind
ISO 639 2/B
sin
ind
ISO 639 3
sin
ind
ISO 639 6
sin
ind
Glottocode
sinh1246
indo1316
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative