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Hungarian and Sinhalese


Sinhalese and Hungarian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
1  
14

National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  
Sri Lanka  

Second Language
United States of America  
Sri Lanka  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)  

Interesting Facts
  • Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
  • 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
  
  • 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
Mansi and Khanty Languages  
Maldivian Language  

Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
40  
21
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14  
11
18  
15

How Many Consonants
25  
15
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
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  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
szia  
හලෝ (halō)  

Thank You
köszönöm  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)  

How Are You?
Hogy vagy?  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)  

Good Night
Jó Éjszakát  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)  

Good Evening
jó Estét  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)  

Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)  

Good Morning
jó Reggelt  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)  

Please
Kérlek  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)  

Sorry
bocsi  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)  

Bye
viszlát  
බායි (bāyi)  

I Love You
Szeretlek  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)  

Excuse Me
elnézést  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Csángó  
Vedda  

Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania  
Sri Lanka  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
34
19,000,000.00  
30

Dialect 2
Oberwart  
Sri Lankan Sinhala  

Where They Speak
Austria  
-  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
32
19,000,000.00  
27

Dialect 3
Székely  
Up-Country Sinhalese  

Where They Speak
Székely Land  
-  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
28
16,000,000.00  
27

Total No. Of Dialects
11  
11
1  
1

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.19 %  
99+
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
13.00 million  
99+
16.00 million  
39

Second Language Speakers
0.07 million  
99+
2.00 million  
99+

Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv  
සිංහල (sĩhala)  

Alternative Names
Magyar  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala  

French Name
hongrois  
singhalais  

German Name
Ungarisch  
Singhalesisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]  
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]  

Ethnicity
Hungarians  
Sinhalese people  

History

Origin
1192 AD  
3  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Ugric  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Hungarian  
Sinhalese Prakrit  

Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian  
Modern Sinhalese  

Language Position
66  
99+
70  
99+

Signed Forms
Hungarian Sign Language  
Signed Sinhalese  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hu  
si  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hun  
sin  

ISO 639 2/B
hun  
sin  

ISO 639 3
hun  
sin  

ISO 639 6
hun  
sin  

Glottocode
hung1274  
sinh1246  

Linguasphere
ohu  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Fusional  

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

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Hungarian and Sinhalese Speaking population

Hungarian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hungarian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Hungarian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hungarian language is 0.19 % 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 Hungarian and Sinhalese on Hungarian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Hungarian and Sinhalese Language Codes

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

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