Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5440
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1821
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3619
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Hangul
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
안녕 (annyeong)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Jeju
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
South Korea
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
-
South Korea
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
-
China, North Korea
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0077,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
112
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million77.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %1.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million77.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million77.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
singhalais
coréen
German Name
Singhalesisch
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[hangukmal]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Koreans
Origin
3
Before 1st century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Language Position
7012
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
ko
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
kor
ISO 639 2/B
sin
kor
ISO 639 3
sin
Kor
ISO 639 6
sin
kor
Glottocode
sinh1246
kore1280
Linguasphere
No data available
45-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative