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Countries

Countries

Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

461
0 46
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National Language

Spain
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia

Minority Language

Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic 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

French Language
Maldivian Language

Derived From

Latin
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2754
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

518
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2236
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

62
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hola
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Gracias
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Cómo estás?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

Buenas Noches
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Bonne soirée
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Buenas Tardes
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Buenos Días
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

Por Favor
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

triste
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

adiós
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Te Quiero
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Discúlpeme
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mexican Spanish
Vedda

Where They Speak

Mexico
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

105,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Cuban Spanish
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Cuba
-

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Puerto Rican Spanish
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Puerto Rico
-

How Many People Speak

3,900,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

211
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

489.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

6.15 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

410.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

89.50 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Español
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Castellano, Castilian, Español
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

espagnol; castillan
singhalais

German Name

Spanisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Spanish people
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

210 BC
3

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Romance
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Spanish and Spanish
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

270
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Spanish
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

es
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

spa
sin

ISO 639 2/B

spa
sin

ISO 639 3

spa
sin

ISO 639 6

spa
sin

Glottocode

stan1288
sinh1246

Linguasphere

51-AAA-b
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional

Spanish and Sinhalese Alphabets

Spanish and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Spanish and Sinhalese. In Spanish Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Spanish and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Spanish and Sinhalese languages. The Spanish phonology consist Spanish vowels and Spanish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Spanish greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Spanish and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Spanish and Sinhalese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Spanish and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Spanish and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Spanish are spoken in different Spanish Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Spanish vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Spanish dialects include: Mexican Spanish, Cuban Spanish. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Spanish and Sinhalese Speaking population

Spanish and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Spanish and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Spanish and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Spanish language is 6.15 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Spanish and Sinhalese on Spanish vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Spanish and Sinhalese Language Codes

Spanish and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Spanish and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.