Language code: si

Technical information about ISO 639 language code si

The table below provides technical details for the Sinhalese language, designated by the si code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

si

Name

Official

Sinhalese

Native

සිංහල

Family
Indo-Aryan
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Sinhalese, also known as Sinhala, is part of the Indo-European language family, specifically within the Indo-Aryan subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and is written using the Sinhala script. It is estimated that there are around 16 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Sinhalese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

si-LK Sinhalese (Sri Lanka)

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