Concept information
Preferred term
Type
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language
Definition
- Sinhala (සිංහල, ISO 15919: , pronounced , sometimes referred by alternative spelling Singhalese), also known as Helabasa, is the mother tongue of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 15 million. Sinhala is also spoken by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totalling about 3 million. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Sinhala is the official and national language of Sri Lanka.
Entry terms
- Sinhala language
- Sinhalese
is focus of
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- sin
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- sin
ISO 639-1 code
- si
ISO 639-3 code
- sin
In other languages
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Sinhala
Afrikaans
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Sinhalezisht
Albanian
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ሲንሃልኛ
Amharic
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السنهالية
Arabic
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لغة سنهالية
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Սինհալերեն
Armenian
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cingalés
Asturian
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sinhaliscə
Azerbaijani
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সিংহলী
Bangla
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সিংহলি ভাষা
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sinhala
Basque
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Sinhala
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сінгальская
Belarusian
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Сінгальская мова
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ስንሃልኛ
Blin
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सींहाला
Bodo
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сингалески
Bosnian
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Sinhaleg
Breton
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singhaleg
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синхалски
Bulgarian
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Синхалски език
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ဆင်ဟာလ
Burmese
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singalès
Catalan
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Singalès
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僧伽罗语
Chinese
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Singjaleesesch
Colognian
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sinhaleški
Croatian
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sinhálština
Czech
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Sinhálština
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singalesisk
Danish
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Singalesisk
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Singalees
Dutch
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སིང་ཧ་ལ་ཁ
Dzongkha
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سنهالى
Egyptian Arabic
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sinhala
Esperanto
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Sinhala lingvo
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singali
Estonian
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sinhalgbe
Ewe
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sinhalesiskt
Faroese
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Sinhalese bhasa
Fiji Hindi
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Sinhala
Filipino
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Finnish
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Sinhali
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Cingalais
French
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cinghalais
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singhalais
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sinalês
Friulian
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cingalés
Galician
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სინჰალური
Georgian
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Singhalesisch
German
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Singhalesische Sprache
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Σινχαλεζικά
Greek
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સિંહલી
Gujarati
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Sinhalanci
Hausa
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סינהלה
Hebrew
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शिंघालीस्
Hindi
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सिंहली भाषा
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szingaléz
Hungarian
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sinhala
Icelandic
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Sinhala
Indonesian
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Bahasa Sinhala
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sinhalese
Interlingua
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Siolóinis
Irish
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singalese
Italian
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Lingua singalese
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シンハラ語
Japanese
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singales
Kabuverdianu
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ಸಿಂಹಳ
Kannada
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سِنہالا
Kashmiri
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сингал
Kazakh
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ស្រីលង្កា
Khmer
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Inyesimpaleze
Kinyarwanda
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싱할라어
Korean
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스리랑카어
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сингалача
Kyrgyz
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ສິງຫານ
Lao
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Lingua Singhalensis
Latin
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singāļu
Latvian
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Lengua singaleise
Ligurian
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sinhalų
Lithuanian
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Sinhalų kalba
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Singalees
Low German
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синхалиски
Macedonian
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Fiteny singalesa
Malagasy
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സിംഹള
Malayalam
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Sinħaliż
Maltese
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सिंहली
Marathi
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सिंहला भाषा
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सिन्हाल
Nepali
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Singalesisk
Norwegian
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singalesisk
Norwegian Bokmål
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singalesisk
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Singalés
Occitan
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ସିଂହଳ
Odia
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Afaan Sinhalese
Oromo
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سينهالي
Pashto
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سینهالی
Persian
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زبان سینهالی
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Lenga sinhalèisa
Piedmontese
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syngaleski
Polish
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Język syngaleski
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cingalês
Portuguese
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Língua cingalesa
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Sinhala simi
Quechua
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singaleză
Romanian
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Limba singaleză
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singalais
Romansh
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сингальский
Russian
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Сингальский язык
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Sinhala
Scottish Gaelic
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Сингалески
Serbian
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සිංහල
Sinhala
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සිංහල භාෂාව
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sinhalčina
Slovak
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singalščina
Slovenian
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Singalščina
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Sinhaleys
Somali
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Se-sinhali
Southern Sotho
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cingalés
Spanish
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Idioma cingalés
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Swedish
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Singalesiska
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Singhalesisch
Swiss German
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சிங்களம்
Tamil
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సింహాల
Telugu
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สิงหล
Thai
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ภาษาสิงหล
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ཞི་ལན་སྐད།
Tibetan
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ስንሃልኛ
Tigre
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ስንሃልኛ
Tigrinya
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lea fakaselengika
Tongan
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Seylanca
Turkish
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сингальська
Ukrainian
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Сингальська мова
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سنہالا
Urdu
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سىنگال تىلى
Uyghur
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Tiếng Sinhala
Vietnamese
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Singalesiš
Walser
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Sinhaleg
Welsh
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Isi-Sinhalese
Xhosa
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Èdè Sinhalese
Yoruba
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i-Sinhala
Zulu