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Countries

Countries

Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

111
0 46
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National Language

Turkey
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Turkish Language Association
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
  • Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  • 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

Azerbaijani Language
Maldivian Language

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2954
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

818
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2136
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

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Merhaba
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

teşekkür ederim
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Nasılsın?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

İyi Geceler
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

İyi Akşamlar
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Tünaydın
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

günaydın
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

lütfen
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

üzgünüm
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Hoşçakal
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Seni seviyorum
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Afedersiniz
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Azerbaijani Turkish
Vedda

Where They Speak

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

26,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Crimean Turkish
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
-

How Many People Speak

480,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Gagauz
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
-

How Many People Speak

140,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

91
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

75.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.95 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

60.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Türkçe
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Anatolian, Türkisch
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

turc
singhalais

German Name

Türkisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Turkish
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

c. 1350
3

Language Family

Turkic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Turkic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Southwestern(Oghuz)
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

1970
1 120
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Signed Forms

Turkish Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

tr
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tur
sin

ISO 639 2/B

tur
sin

ISO 639 3

tur
sin

ISO 639 6

tur
sin

Glottocode

nucl1301
sinh1246

Linguasphere

44-AAB-a
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional

Turkish and Sinhalese Alphabets

Turkish and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Turkish and Sinhalese. In Turkish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Turkish and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Turkish and Sinhalese languages. The Turkish phonology consist Turkish vowels and Turkish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Turkish greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Turkish and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Turkish 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 Turkish and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Turkish and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Turkish are spoken in different Turkish Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Turkish vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Turkish dialects include: Azerbaijani Turkish, Crimean Turkish. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Turkish and Sinhalese Speaking population

Turkish and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Turkish and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Turkish and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 % 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 Turkish and Sinhalese on Turkish vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Turkish and Sinhalese Language Codes

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