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How Are You?

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Bye

I Love You

Excuse Me

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Ethiopia, Kenya
2
Ethiopia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa
Somalia
-
  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Somali Language
-
 
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34
10
24
Latin
-
5
44 weeks
 
akkam
Galatoomi
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Nagayattii buli
Akkam waarite
Attam oolte / ooltan
Attam bulte/bultan
Maaloo
naa dhiisi
Nagayattii!
Sin jaaladha
Maaloo na dabarsi
 
Borana
Ethiopia, Kenya
4,000,000.00
Orma
Kenya
66,000.00
Wata
Kenya
13,000.00
17
 
25.00 million
0.36 %
24.00 million
35.00 million
Afaan Oromo
Afaan Oromoo
galla
Galla-Sprache
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Oromos
 
16
Afro-Asiatic Family
Cushitic
-
No early forms
Afaan Oromo
91
Oromo Sign Language
Macrolanguage
 
om
orm
orm
orm
orm
nucl1736
No data available
Living
-
-
 
Sri Lanka
1
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Asia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Maldivian Language
Sanskrit Language
 
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54
18
36
Sinhala alphabet
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2
44 weeks
 
හලෝ (halō)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
බායි (bāyi)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
 
Vedda
Sri Lanka
19,000,000.00
Sri Lankan Sinhala
-
19,000,000.00
Up-Country Sinhalese
-
16,000,000.00
1
 
16.00 million
0.25 %
16.00 million
2.00 million
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
singhalais
Singhalesisch
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Sinhalese people
 
3
Indo-European Family
Indo-Iranian
Indic
Sinhalese Prakrit
Modern Sinhalese
70
Signed Sinhalese
Individual
 
si
sin
sin
sin
sin
sinh1246
No data available
Living
Subject-Object-Verb
Fusional

Oromo vs Sinhalese Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Oromo vs Sinhalese speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Oromo or Sinhalese language.

  • Oromo is spoken as a national language in: .
  • Sinhalese is spoken as a national language in: .

You will also get to know the continents where Oromo and Sinhalese speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Oromo language is and position of Sinhalese language is . Find all the information about these languages on Oromo and Sinhalese.

Oromo and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of Oromo vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of Oromo and Sinhalese language. History of Oromo language states that this language originated in whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in . Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Oromo vs Sinhalese.

Oromo 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 Oromo and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Oromo and Sinhalese language. Oromo word for "Hello" is or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is . Find more of such common Oromo Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Oromo vs Sinhalese Difficulty

The Oromo vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Oromo 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 Oromo and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Oromo and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Oromo is while to learn Sinhalese time required is .