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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Estonia
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  • 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

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Maldivian Language

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2954
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

818
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1336
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

42
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Kiitos
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

hyvää yötä
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

haluta
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

Anteeksi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Heippa
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Vedda

Where They Speak

Finland
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
-

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
-

How Many People Speak

60,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

211
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Suomi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

finnois
singhalais

German Name

Finnisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

1543
3

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Finnic
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

2270
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
sin

ISO 639 2/B

fin
sin

ISO 639 3

fin
sin

ISO 639 6

fin
sin

Glottocode

finn1318
sinh1246

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional

Finnish and Sinhalese Alphabets

Finnish and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and Sinhalese. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Finnish and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and Sinhalese languages. The Finnish phonology consist Finnish vowels and Finnish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Finnish greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Finnish 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 Finnish and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Finnish and Sinhalese Speaking population

Finnish and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % 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 Finnish and Sinhalese on Finnish vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Sinhalese Language Codes

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