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Name:
Sinhala
Alternate Names:
Sinhalese; Singhalese; Cingalese
Spoken in:
Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Canada, Maldives, United Arab Emirates
Number of speakers:
15,500,000 in Sri Lanka (2007). Population total all countries: 15,568,750
(Ethnologue)
Code:
sin
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Sinhalese-Maldivian; Singhalese-Maldivian (sinm)
Child Dialect:
Rodiya (sin-rod)
Map of Sinhala
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