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Countries

Countries

Israel
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Israel
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Israel
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Academy of the Hebrew Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
  • The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
  • 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

Arabic and Aramaic languages
Maldivian Language

Derived From

Aramaic Language
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2254
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

018
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2236
9 60
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Scripts

Hebrew
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

62
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

שלום (Shalom)
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

תודה (Toda)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

לילה טוב (Laila tov)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

ערב טוב (Erev tov)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

בבקשה (bevekshah)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

סליחה! (Slicha)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

להתראות (Lehitraot)
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

בבקשה!
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Ashkenazi Hebrew
Vedda

Where They Speak

Israel
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

9,200,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Samaritan Hebrew
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Israel, Palestine
-

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Yemenite Hebrew
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Israel
-

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

71
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

9.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.11 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

4.40 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.60 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Israeli, Ivrit
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

hébreu
singhalais

German Name

Hebräisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Hebrew-speaking people
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

1000 BC
3

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Canaanitic
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Modern Hebrew
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

2370
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Hebrew
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

he
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

heb
sin

ISO 639 2/B

heb
sin

ISO 639 3

heb
sin

ISO 639 6

heb
sin

Glottocode

hebr1246
sinh1246

Linguasphere

12-AAB-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional

Hebrew and Sinhalese Alphabets

Hebrew and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Hebrew and Sinhalese. In Hebrew Alphabets there are 22 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Hebrew and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Hebrew and Sinhalese languages. The Hebrew phonology consist Hebrew vowels and Hebrew consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Hebrew greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Hebrew and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Hebrew and Sinhalese Speaking population

Hebrew and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hebrew and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Hebrew and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hebrew language is 0.11 % 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 Hebrew and Sinhalese on Hebrew vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Hebrew and Sinhalese Language Codes

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