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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
52
Rank: 31 (Overall)
54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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40
Rank: 29 (Overall)
36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Arabic
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
خوش آمديد
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
سلام علیکم
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
براہ مہربانی
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
معاف کرنا
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
الوداع
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Dakhini
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
India
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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11,000,000.00
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Rekhta
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Asia
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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104.00 million
Rank: 15 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.99 %
Rank: 20 (Overall)
0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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61.00 million
Rank: 19 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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43.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall)
2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
اُردُو
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bihari
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
ourdou
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Urdu
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
12th Century CE
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6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 18 (Overall)
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Rank: 49 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ur
si
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
urd
sin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
urd
sin
7.3 ISO 639 3
urd
sin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
urdu1245
sinh1246
7.6 Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional

Urdu and Sinhalese Alphabets

Urdu and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Urdu and Sinhalese. In Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Urdu and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Urdu and Sinhalese languages. The Urdu phonology consist Urdu vowels and Urdu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Urdu greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Urdu and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Urdu 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 Urdu and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Urdu and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Urdu are spoken in different Urdu Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Urdu vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Urdu dialects include: Dakhini, Hyderabadi Urdu. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Urdu and Sinhalese Speaking population

Urdu and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % 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 Urdu and Sinhalese on Urdu vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Urdu and Sinhalese Language Codes

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

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