Sinhala
E10172
Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka and used as one of the country’s official languages.
Aliases (4)
- Sinhala language ×4
- Middle Sinhala ×1
- Old Sinhala ×1
- Sinhalese ×1
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Aryan language
→
language → |
| coOfficialWith | Tamil → |
| developedFrom |
Middle Indo-Aryan
→
surface form: "Middle Indo-Aryan languages"
|
| ethnicGroupAssociated |
Sinhala
→
surface form: "Sinhalese"
|
| hasApproximateSpeakers |
16 million native speakers
→
over 17 million total speakers → |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SOV → |
| hasCaseSystem | nominal case marking → |
| hasHistoricalStage |
Sinhala
→
surface form: "Middle Sinhala"
Sinhala →
surface form: "Old Sinhala"
|
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Dutch
→
English → Pali → Portuguese language →
surface form: "Portuguese"
Sanskrit → |
| hasMorphologicalType | fusional → |
| hasOfficialStatusIn |
Sri Lanka
→
surface form: "Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka"
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive aspiration in stops
→
prenasalized stops → |
| hasRegisterDistinction | formal vs colloquial registers → |
| hasScriptType | abugida → |
| hasStandardForm | Standard Sinhala → |
| hasTenseSystem | past–non-past distinction → |
| hasVariety |
Colloquial Sinhala
→
Literary Sinhala → Spoken Sinhala → Written Sinhala → |
| hasWritingDirection | left-to-right → |
| ISO639-1Code | si → |
| ISO639-2Code | sin → |
| ISO639-3Code | sin → |
| languageFamily |
Indo-Aryan languages
→
Indo-European languages → Indo-Iranian languages → |
| majorityLanguageIn | Sri Lanka → |
| nativeName | සිංහල → |
| officialLanguageOf | Sri Lanka → |
| primaryLanguageOf | Sinhalese people → |
| spokenIn | Sri Lanka → |
| usedAs | language of instruction in Sri Lankan schools → |
| usedFor |
administration in Sri Lanka
→
broadcasting in Sri Lanka → literature in Sri Lanka → |
| usedIn |
Sri Lankan education system
→
Sri Lanka →
surface form: "Sri Lankan government"
Sri Lankan media → |
| writingSystem | Sinhala script → |
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Sinhalese"
this entity surface form: "Old Sinhala"
this entity surface form: "Middle Sinhala"
subject surface form: "Kingdom of Kandy"
this entity surface form: "Sinhala language"
subject surface form: "Udarata"
this entity surface form: "Sinhala language"
this entity surface form: "Sinhala language"
this entity surface form: "Sinhala language"