Countries
Sri Lanka
Rajastan, India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Rajastan, 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
Nepal, Pakistan
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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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.
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Gujarati Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5442
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3632
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
khammaghani
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
dhanyavaad
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kikan ho sa?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
shubh raatri
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Shubh Honjh
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Shubh Befar
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Shubh Havar
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
kirpa
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Maaf Karo
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
bye
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
main tanne pyaar karoon
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
maaf karo
Dialect 1
Vedda
Jogi
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0014,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Bagri
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0014,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Dhundhari
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
18
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million22.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million14.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Marwari
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
French Name
singhalais
marvari
German Name
Singhalesisch
Marwari
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[məˈrwɑːɾi]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Marwari or Marwadi
Origin
3
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Marwari
Language Position
7072
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
mwr
ISO 639 2/B
sin
mwr
ISO 639 3
sin
mwr
ISO 639 6
sin
mwr
Glottocode
sinh1246
raja1256
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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