Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Sri Lanka
National Language
France
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
- 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
Italian Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Merci
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
bonne Nuit
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
bonsoir
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Bonjour
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
S'il vous plaît
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
désolé
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
au revoir
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Je t'aime
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Vedda
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
African French
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Africa
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Dialect 3
Swiss French
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
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Native Name
français
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Français
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
français
singhalais
German Name
Französisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
French people
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard French
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
stan1290
sinh1246
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
French 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 French and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Sinhalese language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common French Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The French vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of French 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 French and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.