Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Sri Lanka
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
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Hangul
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Where They Speak
South Korea
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Not Available
Where They Speak
South Korea
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Koreans
Sinhalese people
Origin
Before 1st century
3
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
kore1280
sinh1246
Linguasphere
45-AAA
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional
Korean and Sinhalese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Korean and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Korean and Sinhalese language. Korean word for "Hello" is 안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Korean Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Korean vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Korean vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Korean Alphabets and Sinhalese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Korean and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Korean and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Korean is 88 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.