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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
1.3 Total No. Of Countries
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5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.4 National Language
China, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
1.6 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
1.7 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.8 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.9 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.10 Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.11 Similar To
Not Available
Maldivian Language
1.12 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
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24
Rank: 19 (Overall)
18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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2.5.1 How Many Consonants
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23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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2.6 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Sinhala alphabet
2.7 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.8 Hard to Learn
2.8.1 Language Levels
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6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.8.2 Time Taken to Learn
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88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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960,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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80,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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60,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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1,051.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
About Chinese L..
873.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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178.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
3
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 1 (Overall)
70
Rank: 49 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zh
si
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zho
sin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
chi
sin
7.3 ISO 639 3
zho
sin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sini1245
sinh1246
7.6 Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional

Chinese and Sinhalese Alphabets

Chinese and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chinese and Sinhalese. In Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Chinese and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chinese and Sinhalese languages. The Chinese phonology consist Chinese vowels and Chinese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Chinese greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chinese and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Chinese and Sinhalese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Chinese and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Chinese and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chinese are spoken in different Chinese Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chinese vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chinese dialects include: Mandarin, Wu. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Chinese and Sinhalese Speaking population

Chinese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Sinhalese on Chinese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chinese and Sinhalese Language Codes

Chinese and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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