Countries
Sri Lanka
New Zealand
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
New Zealand
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Australia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Māori Language Commission
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.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Tahitian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5420
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3610
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Hello
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Mauruuru koutou
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
E pēhea ana koe ?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Night pai
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
pai ahiahi
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Afternoon pai
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Morning pai
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Tēnā
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Aroha mai
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
poroporoaki
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
tukua ahau
Dialect 1
Vedda
South Island Māori
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00150,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Western North Island Maori
Where They Speak
-
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00150,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Eastern North Island Maori
Where They Speak
-
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00150,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million0.18 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million0.18 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.10 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
te Reo Māori
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
New Zealand Maori
French Name
singhalais
maori
German Name
Singhalesisch
Maori-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈmaɔɾi]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Māori people
Origin
3
1814
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Polynesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Maori
Language Position
7026
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Maori Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
mi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
mri
ISO 639 2/B
sin
mao
ISO 639 3
sin
mri
ISO 639 6
sin
mri
Glottocode
sinh1246
maor1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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