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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
24
Rank: 19 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vedda
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
960,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Wu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
80,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Yue
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
60,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
1,051.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
873.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
178.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
singhalais
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
3
1250 BC
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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6.2.2 Branch
Indic
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 49 (Overall)
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
si
zh
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
sin
zho
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
sin
chi
7.3 ISO 639 3
sin
zho
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sinh1246
sini1245
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating

Sinhalese and Chinese Alphabets

Sinhalese and Chinese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Chinese. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Chinese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Chinese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sinhalese and Chinese 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 Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Not Available. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sinhalese and Chinese Speaking population

Sinhalese and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. 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 Chinese on Sinhalese vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Chinese Language Codes

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

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