Sinhala is natively spoken by about 1.6 million people, primarily in Sri Lanka, where it is an official language. It is integral to Sinhalese cultural identity, known for its ancient Buddhist heritage, traditional dance forms like Kandyan dance, and festivals such as Sinhala New Year. Written in the Sinhala script, Sinhala grammar features a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, extensive use of postpositions, and a system of verb conjugations that indicate tense, aspect, and mood.
Estadísticas
Language Family: Indo-European
Writing System: Sinhala
Writing System Type: Abugida
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: N
Morphology: Fusional
Cases: 5
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 0
Number of Verb Tenses: 2
Word Order: SOV
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 13
Number of Consonants: 26
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Sri Lanka (official) (~ 74%) (~ 1.64 mil)
Recursos
Books
Movies
baiscope.lk - With Sinhala subtitles
zoom.lk - With Sinhala subtitles
News
Podcasts
Hi Travellers - In Sinhala and talks about traveling
Techකතා | Techkatha - In Sinhala and talks about tech
Daylight Podcast - In Sinhala and talks about education
Radio
Nilwala Radio (local music)
Thrimana Web TV (portal)
Videos
PortuLanka - Alphabet and tourist words
Dilshan Jayasinha - Phrases and vocabulary
Education World - More than 600 most used vocabulary and expressions
Learn with sathees - Videos in Sinhala with Sinhala and Tamil subtitles
Sri Lanka Travel - at ease - Culture, places to visit, etc
Websites
Madura - Sinhala <=> English
dsal.uchicago.edu - Sinhala <=> English
lingo-play.com - Vocabulary and phrases
Lazy But Smart Sinhala - Blog with podcast, videos and more
livelingua - 3 basic volumes of lessons
mylanguages.org - Alphabet, phrases, grammar