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Sinhalese
Sinhalese

Arabic
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Countries

Countries

Sri Lanka
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Total No. Of Countries

123
0 46
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National Language

Sri Lanka
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

Interesting Facts

  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.

Similar To

Maldivian Language
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5428
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

188
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3628
9 60
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Scripts

Sinhala alphabet
Arabic

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

24
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

හලෝ (halō)
مرحبا

Thank You

ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
شكرا

How Are You?

ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
مساء الخير

Good Morning

සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
صباح الخير

Please

කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
من فضلك

Sorry

සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
آسف

Bye

බායි (bāyi)
وداعا

I Love You

මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
أحبك

Excuse Me

මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vedda
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Sri Lanka
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sri Lankan Sinhala
Sudanese

Where They Speak

-
Sudan

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese
Levantine

Where They Speak

-
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

126
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

16.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

සිංහල (sĩhala)
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

singhalais
arabe

German Name

Singhalesisch
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Sinhalese people
Arabs

History

Origin

3
512 CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Semitic

Branch

Indic
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Sinhalese
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

7025
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Sinhalese
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

si
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sin
ara

ISO 639 2/B

sin
ara

ISO 639 3

sin
ara

ISO 639 6

sin
ara

Glottocode

sinh1246
arab1395

Linguasphere

No data available
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Sinhalese and Arabic Alphabets

Sinhalese and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Arabic. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Arabic languages. The Sinhalese phonology consist Sinhalese vowels and Sinhalese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sinhalese greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sinhalese and Arabic Speaking population

Sinhalese and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. 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 Sinhalese and Arabic on Sinhalese vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Arabic Language Codes

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