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Oromo
Oromo

Sinhalese
Sinhalese



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Countries

Countries

Ethiopia, Kenya
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  • 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

Somali Language
Maldivian Language

Derived From

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Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3454
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1018
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2436
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

52
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

akkam
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Galatoomi
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Attam jirta/jirtu?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

Nagayattii buli
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Akkam waarite
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Attam oolte / ooltan
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Attam bulte/bultan
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

Maaloo
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

naa dhiisi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Nagayattii!
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Sin jaaladha
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Maaloo na dabarsi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Borana
Vedda

Where They Speak

Ethiopia, Kenya
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Orma
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Kenya
-

How Many People Speak

66,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Wata
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Kenya
-

How Many People Speak

13,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

171
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.36 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

24.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

35.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afaan Oromo
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Afaan Oromoo
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

galla
singhalais

German Name

Galla-Sprache
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[ɔrɔmɔ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Oromos
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

16
3

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Cushitic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

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Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Afaan Oromo
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

9170
1 120
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Signed Forms

Oromo Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

om
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

orm
sin

ISO 639 2/B

orm
sin

ISO 639 3

orm
sin

ISO 639 6

orm
sin

Glottocode

nucl1736
sinh1246

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional

Oromo and Sinhalese Alphabets

Oromo and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Oromo and Sinhalese. In Oromo Alphabets there are 34 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Oromo and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Oromo and Sinhalese languages. The Oromo phonology consist Oromo vowels and Oromo consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Oromo greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Oromo and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Oromo and Sinhalese Speaking population

Oromo and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Oromo and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Oromo and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 % 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 Oromo and Sinhalese on Oromo vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Oromo and Sinhalese Language Codes

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