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Georgian vs Sinhalese


Sinhalese vs Georgian


Countries

Countries
Georgia   
Sri Lanka   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
1   
14

National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America   
Sri Lanka   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Sri Lanka   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia   
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)   

Interesting Facts
  • Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
  • Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
  • 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
Not Available   
Maldivian Language   

Derived From
Anatolian Languages   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
33   
15
54   
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
18   
15

How Many Consonants
28   
18
36   
26

Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script   
Sinhala alphabet   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)   
හලෝ (halō)   

Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)   
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)   

How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)   
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)   

Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)   
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)   

Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)   
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)   

Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)   
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)   

Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)   
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)   

Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)   
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)   

Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)   
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)   

Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)   
බායි (bāyi)   

I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)   
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)   

Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)   
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian   
Vedda   

Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America   
Sri Lanka   

How Many People Speak
80,000.00   
99+
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Kartlian   
Not Available   

Where They Speak
Kartli   
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Pshavian   
Not Available   

Where They Speak
Pshavi   
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
20   
18
1   
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
4.30 million   
99+
16.00 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.25 %   
99+

Native Speakers
4.30 million   
99+
16.00 million   
39

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
2.00 million   
34

Native Name
ქართული ენა   
සිංහල (sĩhala)   

Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli   
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala   

French Name
géorgien   
singhalais   

German Name
Georgisch   
Singhalesisch   

Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Georgians   
Sinhalese people   

History

Origin
5th Century   
3   

Language Family
Kartvelian Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Southern   
Indo-Iranian   

Branch
Not Available   
Indic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian   
Sinhalese Prakrit   

Standard Forms
Modern Georgian   
Modern Sinhalese   

Language Position
120   
99+
70   
99+

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
ka   
si   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kat   
sin   

ISO 639 2/B
geo   
sin   

ISO 639 3
kat   
sin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
nucl1302   
sinh1246   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Fusional   

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Georgian and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of Georgian vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of Georgian and Sinhalese language. History of Georgian language states that this language originated in 5th Century whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Georgian and Sinhalese Language History.

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Georgian 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 Georgian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Georgian and Sinhalese language. Georgian word for "Hello" is გამარჯობა (gamarjoba) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Georgian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Georgian vs Sinhalese Difficulty

The Georgian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Georgian 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 Georgian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Georgian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Georgian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.

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