Countries
China, Mongolia
Sri Lanka
National Language
China, Mongolia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
- 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
Turkish Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Not Available
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Not Available
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
mongol
singhalais
German Name
Mongolisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mong1331
sinh1246
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Mongolian 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 Mongolian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Sinhalese language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian 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 Mongolian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.