Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Yemen
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2654
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Habeenka Good
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Evening Good
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Fadlan
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
caraysiiyo
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Vedda
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Benaadir
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
-
How Many People Speak
21.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
af Soomaali
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
somali
singhalais
German Name
Somali
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Sinhalese people
Origin
19th century
3
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Somali
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
8370
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
sin
ISO 639 2/B
som
sin
ISO 639 3
som
sin
ISO 639 6
som
sin
Glottocode
soma1255
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional