Countries
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
National Language
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
matur nuwun
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
piye kabare?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
wengi sing apik
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Not Available
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Vedda
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Not Available
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Not Available
Dialect 3
Arekan
Not Available
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
basa Jawa
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
javanais
singhalais
German Name
Javanisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Javanese
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
java1253
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional
All Javanese 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 Javanese and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Javanese and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Javanese are spoken in different Javanese Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Javanese vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan, Cirebon. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Javanese and Sinhalese Speaking population
Javanese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % 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 Javanese and Sinhalese on Javanese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Javanese and Sinhalese Language Codes
Javanese and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Javanese and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.