Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
- 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
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2954
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1736
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
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
e dupe
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
ka a ale
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
e kaaro
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Jowo
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
binu
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
bye
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Vedda
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ede
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
-
How Many People Speak
800,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
10,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
201
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
yoruba
singhalais
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Sinhalese people
Origin
4 BC
3
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Kwa
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
4970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
sin
ISO 639 2/B
yor
sin
ISO 639 3
yor
sin
ISO 639 6
yor
sin
Glottocode
yoru1245
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional