×

Malaysian
Malaysian

Sinhalese
Sinhalese



ADD
Compare
X
Malaysian
X
Sinhalese

Malaysian and Sinhalese

Countries

Countries

Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

31
0 46
👆🏻

National Language

Malaysia
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Indonesia
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Thailand
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  • 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

Indonesian Language
Maldivian Language

Derived From

Tamil Language
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2654
18 247
👆🏻

Phonology

How Many Vowels

618
0 32
👆🏻

How Many Consonants

2436
9 60
👆🏻

Scripts

Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

62
2 12
👆🏻

Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
👆🏻

Greetings

Hello

Hai
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

terima kasih
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Apa khabar?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

Selamat Malam
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Selamat Petang
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Selamat tengah hari
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Selamat pagi
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

sila
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

maaf
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Selamat tinggal
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Saya sayang kamu
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Maafkan saya
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bengkulu
Vedda

Where They Speak

Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

1,600,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
👆🏻

Dialect 2

Pekal
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Indonesia
-

How Many People Speak

30,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
👆🏻

Dialect 3

Musi
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Indonesia
-

How Many People Speak

3,100,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
👆🏻

Total No. Of Dialects

241
0 188
👆🏻

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

175.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
👆🏻

Speaking Population

1.16 %0.25 %
0 89
👆🏻

Native Speakers

77.00 million16.00 million
0 873
👆🏻

Second Language Speakers

98.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
👆🏻

Native Name

Bahasa melayu
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Bahasa Malaysia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

malais
singhalais

German Name

Malaiisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Malaysian people
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

c. 683 AD
3

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

5470
1 120
👆🏻

Signed Forms

Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ms
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

msa
sin

ISO 639 2/B

may
sin

ISO 639 3

zsm
sin

ISO 639 6

may
sin

Glottocode

stan1306
sinh1246

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional

Malaysian and Sinhalese Alphabets

Malaysian and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malaysian and Sinhalese. In Malaysian Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Malaysian and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malaysian and Sinhalese languages. The Malaysian phonology consist Malaysian vowels and Malaysian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Malaysian greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malaysian and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Malaysian and Sinhalese Speaking population

Malaysian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malaysian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Malaysian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 % 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 Malaysian and Sinhalese on Malaysian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malaysian and Sinhalese Language Codes

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