Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
China, Mongolia
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)
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Turkish Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5435
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1813
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
-
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
-
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
18
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
singhalais
mongol
German Name
Singhalesisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Mongols
Origin
3
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Mongolian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
7026
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
mon
ISO 639 2/B
sin
mon
ISO 639 3
sin
mon
ISO 639 6
sin
mon
Glottocode
sinh1246
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data available
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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