Countries
China
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
China
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- 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
Uzbek Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Gokturk Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3654
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
918
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2736
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
rakhmat
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
birdam
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
kachurung
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Khayr khosh
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Kachurung
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Turpan
Vedda
Where They Speak
China
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hotan
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
71
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
10.40 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
ouïgour
singhalais
German Name
Uigurisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Sinhalese people
Origin
11
3
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
9870
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ug
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
sin
ISO 639 2/B
uig
sin
ISO 639 3
uig
sin
ISO 639 6
uig
sin
Glottocode
uigh1240
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional