What language is Sinhala?
Q: What language is Sinhala?
A: Sinhala, also known as Singhalese, is the language of the Sinhalese people who are the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka.
Q: What language family does Sinhala belong to?
A: Sinhala belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family.
Q: How many native speakers of Sinhala are there?
A: There are approximately 16 million native speakers of Sinhala.
Q: Is it an official language of Sri Lanka?
A: Yes, along with Tamil, it is one of the constitutionally-recognised official languages of Sri Lanka.
Q: What is the writing system used for sinhala?
A: The writing system used for sinhala is an offspring of the Indian Brahmi script.
Q: When were the oldest existing literary works written in sinhala? A: The oldest existing literary works written in sinhala date from 9th century AD.
Q: What type of word order does sinahla use?
A:Sinahla uses SOV (subject-object-verb) word order which is similar to Japanese and Korean.
