Country Info

Sri Lanka Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 20,437,372 people (91% of Sri Lanka) that can read or write at least one language.

3 Writing Systems used in Sri Lanka

Sinhala (Sinhala)

si-sinh
language code
15,238,392
people

Tamil (Tamil)

ta-taml
language code
3,361,410
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
2,240,940
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR