Countries
Wales
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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
English Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
British Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2954
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
718
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
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Diolch
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Nos da
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Bore da
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Hwyl
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Vedda
Where They Speak
Argentina
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
38,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
-
How Many People Speak
700,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Powys
-
How Many People Speak
700,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
81
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.40 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.40 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
gallois
singhalais
German Name
Kymrisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Sinhalese people
Origin
9th Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Brythonic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Welsh
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3170
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
cy
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
sin
ISO 639 2/B
wel
sin
ISO 639 3
cym
sin
ISO 639 6
cym
sin
Glottocode
wels1247
sinh1246
Linguasphere
50-ABA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional