Cantonese and Sinhalese
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Sri Lanka
National Language
China, Guangdong
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
谢谢
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
你好吗？
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
晚安
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
晚上好
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
下午好
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
早上好
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
请
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
遗憾
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
我爱你
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
原谅我
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Vedda
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
cantonais
singhalais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Sinhalese
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 3
No data available
sin
Glottocode
cant1236
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional
All Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Sinhalese Speaking population
Cantonese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Sinhalese on Cantonese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Sinhalese Language Codes
Cantonese and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.