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singalese

Also known as Singhalese language, Helabasa, Sinhalese language, Sinhalese, Sinhala language

lingua indoeuropea

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Sinhala is a language spoken by the majority of people in Sri Lanka, belonging to the Indo-Aryan language family that also includes languages like Hindi and Bengali. It matters because it is the primary language of Sri Lanka's largest ethnic group and serves as an official language of the country.

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Instance of: modern language
Country: Sri Lanka
Image: සිංහල in Noto Serif Sinhala Black.svg

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has tense: present tense
writing system: Sinhala script
topic's main category: Category:Sinhala language
Wikimedia language code: si
native label: සිංහල
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 15300000
Commons category: Sinhala language
linguistic typology: postposition
category for films in this language: Category:Sinhala-language films
indigenous to: Sri Lanka
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SIN
P10369: penis
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
has grammatical case: vocative case
P13311: Central Europe
has grammatical gender: neuter

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La lingua singalese o cingalese o sinhala (nome nativo සිංහල, Siṁhala, ISO 15919 ['siŋhələ]) è la lingua parlata dai singalesi, il gruppo etnico predominante in Sri Lanka (ex Ceylon), e una delle lingue ufficiali di tale Stato; è una lingua appartenente al ceppo indoariano del gruppo indoeuropeo, strettamente imparentata al maldiviana, la lingua ufficiale nelle Maldive. Al 2022, è parlata da 17,5 milioni di parlanti totali.

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