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Japanese and Sinhalese

Countries

Countries

Japan
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Asia

Minority Language

Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Maldivian Language

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9954
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

518
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1436
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

52
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Vedda

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
-

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

kansai
-

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

311
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

japonais
singhalais

German Name

Japanisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

1185
3

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Japanese
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

870
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
sin

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
sin

ISO 639 3

jpn
sin

ISO 639 6

jpn
sin

Glottocode

nucl1643
sinh1246

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
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

Japanese and Sinhalese Alphabets

Japanese and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Sinhalese. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Japanese and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Sinhalese languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Sinhalese Speaking population

Japanese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Sinhalese on Japanese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Sinhalese Language Codes

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