Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Sri Lanka
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
- 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
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
متشکرم
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
شب بخیر
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
لطفا
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
متاسف
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Afganistan
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
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Native Name
فارسی
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
persan
singhalais
German Name
Persisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Persian
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
fars1254
sinh1246
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional
Persian 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 Persian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Persian and Sinhalese language. Persian word for "Hello" is سلام or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Persian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Persian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Persian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Persian 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 Persian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Persian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Persian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.