Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
National Language
China, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
Similar To
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Maldivian Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Wu
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Yue
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
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Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
chinois
singhalais
German Name
Chinesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Han
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sini1245
sinh1246
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional
Chinese and Sinhalese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Sinhalese language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Chinese vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Sinhalese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.