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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
 
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
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
 
Hong Kong, Macau
2
China, Guangdong
Not spoken in any of the countries
Asia
Hawaii
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Chinese Language
-
 
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28
8
20
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
10
88 weeks
 
您好
谢谢
你好吗?
晚安
晚上好
下午好
早上好
遗憾
再见
我爱你
原谅我
 
Guangzhou
outside mainland China
71,000,000.00
Xiguan
Hong Kong
71,000,000.00
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
70,000,000.00
3
 
60.00 million
16.00 %
52.00 million
71.00 million
Kwang Tung Wa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
cantonais
Kantonesisch
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Han Chinese
 
17th century
Sino-Tibetan Family
-
-
No early forms
Standard Cantonese
1
Signed Cantonese
-
 
No data available
yue
yue
No data available
yue
cant1236
No data available
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-
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Sinhalese and Cantonese Alphabets

Sinhalese and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Cantonese. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are letters. To learn Sinhalese and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Cantonese 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 vs Cantonese, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sinhalese and Cantonese Speaking population

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

Sinhalese and Cantonese Language Codes

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