Countries
Sri Lanka
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Vietnam
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic
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.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5437
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
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)
Xin chào
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Cam on
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Chào buổi sáng
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
xin vui lòng
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Xin lỗi
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Tạm biệt
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Vedda
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
-
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
-
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
15
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
singhalais
vietnamien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
3
c. 1440
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
7014
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
vie
ISO 639 2/B
sin
vie
ISO 639 3
sin
vie
ISO 639 6
sin
vie
Glottocode
sinh1246
viet1252
Linguasphere
No data available
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating