Sinhala language
Sinhala (ISO 639-3 code sin) is a language of the Indo-European family spoken in Sri Lanka. It has about 17,000,000 speakers.
Facts
| ISO 639-3 code | sin |
|---|---|
| Glottocode | sinh1246 |
| Family | Indo-European |
| Area | Eurasia |
| Countries | Sri Lanka |
| Speakers (estimate) | 17,000,000 |
Sinhala words
- අච්චුව
- අණ්ඩය
- අත
- අල්ලනවා
- ආණ්ඩුව
- ආයුබෝවන්
- ඇමරිකාව
- ඇමෙරිකාව
- උණු
- උරනවා
- උරුව
- එක්සත්
- ඔප්පුව
- කට
- කටු
- කටුව
- කණ
- කඹුරා
- කලල
- කාණ්ඩය
- කාපිරියා
- කාලය
- කැටිකරනවා
- කැස
Related languages
Other Indo-European languages, nearest first.
- Veddah
- English1,500,000,000 speakers
- Hindi610,000,000 speakers
- Spanish560,000,000 speakers
- French310,000,000 speakers
- Bengali273,000,000 speakers
- Portuguese264,000,000 speakers
- Russian255,000,000 speakers
- Urdu232,000,000 speakers
- German135,000,000 speakers
- Punjabi130,000,000 speakers
- Marathi95,000,000 speakers
More about Sinhala
Classification, area and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Speaker numbers are estimates and differ between sources.