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Countries

Countries

China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

51
0 46
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National Language

North Korea, South Korea
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

The National Institute of the Korean Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
  • Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  • 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

Chinese and Japanese languages
Maldivian Language

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4054
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

2118
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1936
9 60
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Scripts

Hangul
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

32
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

하십시오 (hasibsio)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

안녕 (annyeong)
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Jeju
Vedda

Where They Speak

South Korea
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

10,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gyeongsang
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

South Korea
-

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hamgyŏng
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

China, North Korea
-

How Many People Speak

77,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

121
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

77.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.14 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

77.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

77.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

한국어 (조선말)
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

coréen
singhalais

German Name

Koreanisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[hangukmal]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Koreans
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

Before 1st century
3

Language Family

Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

1270
1 120
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Signed Forms

Korean Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ko
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kor
sin

ISO 639 2/B

kor
sin

ISO 639 3

Kor
sin

ISO 639 6

kor
sin

Glottocode

kore1280
sinh1246

Linguasphere

45-AAA
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional

Korean and Sinhalese Alphabets

Korean and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Korean and Sinhalese. In Korean Alphabets there are 40 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Korean and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Korean and Sinhalese languages. The Korean phonology consist Korean vowels and Korean consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Korean greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Korean and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Korean and Sinhalese Speaking population

Korean and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Korean and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Korean and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Korean language is 1.14 % 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 Korean and Sinhalese on Korean vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Korean and Sinhalese Language Codes

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