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 |
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.