Sinhala language

GPTKB entity

Statements (54)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:language
gptkbp:closelyRelatedTo gptkb:Dhivehi_language
gptkbp:descendedFrom gptkb:Prakrit
gptkb:Elu
gptkbp:endonym gptkb:සිංහල
gptkbp:glottologCode sinh1246
gptkbp:hasAgglutinativeFeatures yes
gptkbp:hasAnalyticFeatures yes
gptkbp:hasCaseSystem yes
gptkbp:hasConsonants over 30 consonants
gptkbp:hasDialects Kandyan dialect
Low-country dialect
Up-country dialect
gptkbp:hasGenderDistinction no
gptkbp:hasLoanwordsFrom gptkb:Pali
gptkb:Sanskrit
gptkb:Tamil
Dutch
English
Portuguese
gptkbp:hasNumberDistinction singular and plural
gptkbp:hasPhonology aspirated vs unaspirated stops
retroflex vs dental stops
gptkbp:hasTenseSystem past, present, future
gptkbp:hasVowelInventory 8 vowels
gptkbp:honorificPrefix yes
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sinhala language
gptkbp:ISO_3166-2_code si
gptkbp:ISO639-3 single
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:Indo-European_languages
gptkb:Indo-Aryan_languages
gptkbp:nativeTo gptkb:Sri_Lanka
gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers over 16 million
gptkbp:officialLanguage gptkb:Sri_Lanka
gptkbp:recordedAt 3rd century BCE
gptkbp:region gptkb:South_Asia
gptkbp:regulates gptkb:Department_of_Official_Languages_(Sri_Lanka)
gptkbp:spokenIn gptkb:Sinhalese_people
gptkbp:status government position
national language
gptkbp:usedFor gptkb:literature
gptkb:public_administration
gptkb:religion
gptkbp:usedIn education in Sri Lanka
government in Sri Lanka
media in Sri Lanka
gptkbp:writingSystem gptkb:Sinhala_script
left-to-right
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Sinhalese_monarchy
gptkb:Jenny
gptkb:Diacritics
gptkb:Sanskrit_language
gptkb:Sri_Lankan_Portuguese_Creole
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6