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 in
Alphabets
2954
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
818
0
32
👆🏻
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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
91
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional