Countries
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1018
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4336
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Unjani
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Molo
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Ndicela
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Vedda
Where They Speak
South Africa
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
91
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
xhosa
singhalais
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Sinhalese people
Origin
16th Century
3
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2170
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
sin
ISO 639 2/B
xho
sin
ISO 639 3
xho
sin
ISO 639 6
xho
sin
Glottocode
xhos1239
sinh1246
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional