ISO 639-3 · sinsin
Indo-European family
Sinhala
සිංහල භාෂාව
Sinhala is a language of the Indo-Aryan branch (Indo-European), spoken in Sri Lanka. Wikidata counts 15.3 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “Indo-Aryan language native to Sri Lanka”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sin- ISO 639-1
si- Glottocode
sinh1246- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 6.93, 79.89
- Wikipedia
- 110 language editions
15.3 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
3levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Sinhala · සිංහල භාෂාව |
|---|---|
| Also called | Singhalese language, Helabasa, Sinhalese language, Sinhalese, Sinhala language |
| L1 speakers | 15,300,000 (2019) |
| Written in | Sinhala script |
| Official in | Sri Lanka |
| Grammatical cases | 8 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Sinhala
The branches above Sinhala, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
