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Nepali
Nepali

Sinhalese
Sinhalese



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Countries

Countries

India, Nepal
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Nepal
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Language Academy of Nepal
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  • 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

Hindi
Maldivian Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4854
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1218
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3636
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

62
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्ते (namaste)
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Good afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

कृपया
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

नमस्ते (namaste)
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doteli
Vedda

Where They Speak

Nepal
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

790,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Bajhangi
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

India, Nepal
-

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baitadeli
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Nepal
-

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.0016,000,000.00
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?

30.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

नेपाली (nēpālī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

népalais
singhalais

German Name

Nepali
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[neˈpali]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

19 BC
3

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Nepali
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

5970
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Nepali
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ne
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nep
sin

ISO 639 2/B

nep
sin

ISO 639 3

npi
sin

ISO 639 6

nep
sin

Glottocode

nepa1254
sinh1246

Linguasphere

12
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional

Nepali and Sinhalese Alphabets

Nepali and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Nepali and Sinhalese. In Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Nepali and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Nepali and Sinhalese languages. The Nepali phonology consist Nepali vowels and Nepali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Nepali greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Nepali and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Nepali and Sinhalese Speaking population

Nepali and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % 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 Nepali and Sinhalese on Nepali vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Nepali and Sinhalese Language Codes

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