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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Nepal
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
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Hindi
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
48
Rank: 28 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
कृपया
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vedda
Doteli
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
790,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Bajhangi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
India, Nepal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
About Chinese L..
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Baitadeli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Nepal
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
12
Rank: 12 (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)
30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
5.00 million
Rank: 29 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
singhalais
népalais
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Nepali
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
3
19 BC
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Nepali
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 49 (Overall)
59
Rank: 44 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
si
ne
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
sin
nep
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
sin
nep
7.3 ISO 639 3
sin
npi
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sinh1246
nepa1254
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
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7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative

Sinhalese and Nepali Alphabets

Sinhalese and Nepali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Nepali. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Nepali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Nepali are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sinhalese and Nepali Speaking population

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

Sinhalese and Nepali Language Codes

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

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