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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Marathi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5452
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1816
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
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
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Namaskar
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
kaso assa?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Chike
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Maf kor
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Adeus
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Vedda
Antruz
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Goa
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
11
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
singhalais
konkani
German Name
Singhalesisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Konkanis
Origin
3
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Kokani
Language Position
7023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
kok
ISO 639 2/B
sin
kok
ISO 639 3
sin
kok
ISO 639 6
sin
kok
Glottocode
sinh1246
goan1235
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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