Countries
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
National Language
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Not Available
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
piye kabare?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Sugeng énjing
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Not Available
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Vedda
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Dialect 2
Not Available
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Not Available
Indonesia
Dialect 3
Not Available
Arekan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Indonesia
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
singhalais
javanais
German Name
Singhalesisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Javanese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sinh1246
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative
All Sinhalese and Javanese 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 Javanese dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and Javanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas Javanese Dialects are spoken in different Javanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs Javanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Not Available. Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan , Cirebon. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Sinhalese and Javanese Speaking population
Sinhalese and Javanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Javanese languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Javanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 %. 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 Javanese on Sinhalese vs Javanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Javanese Language Codes
Sinhalese and Javanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Javanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.