Countries
India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
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 in
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Where They Speak
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Up-Country Sinhalese
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
nepa1254
sinh1246
Linguasphere
12
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Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional
Nepali 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 Nepali and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Sinhalese language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Nepali vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali 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 Nepali and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.