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Sinhalese and Japanese

Countries

Countries

Sri Lanka
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Sri Lanka
Japan

Second Language

Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau

Regulated By

Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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.
  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Maldivian Language
Korean Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5499
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

185
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3614
9 60
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Scripts

Sinhala alphabet
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

25
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

හලෝ (halō)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

බායි (bāyi)
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vedda
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Sri Lanka
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sri Lankan Sinhala
Hakata

Where They Speak

-
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese
Kansai

Where They Speak

-
kansai

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

131
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

16.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

සිංහල (sĩhala)
日本語

Alternative Names

Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Nihongo

French Name

singhalais
japonais

German Name

Singhalesisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Sinhalese people
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

3
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Indic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Modern Sinhalese
Japanese

Language Position

708
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Sinhalese
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

si
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sin
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

sin
jpn

ISO 639 3

sin
jpn

ISO 639 6

sin
jpn

Glottocode

sinh1246
nucl1643

Linguasphere

No data available
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Sinhalese and Japanese Alphabets

Sinhalese and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Japanese. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sinhalese and Japanese Speaking population

Sinhalese and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Sinhalese vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Japanese Language Codes

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