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
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 in
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
أحبك
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
اعذرني
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Sudanese
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Levantine
Where They Speak
-
Cyprus, Levant
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
North Arabic
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Glottocode
sinh1246
arab1395
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic
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.