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Sinhalese

Persian
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Countries

Countries

Sri Lanka
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Sri Lanka
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Maldivian Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5432
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

186
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3623
9 60
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Scripts

Sinhala alphabet
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

26
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

හලෝ (halō)
سلام

Thank You

ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
متشکرم

How Are You?

ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
چطور هستید?

Good Night

සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
شب بخیر

Good Evening

සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
صبح به خیر

Please

කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
لطفا

Sorry

සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
متاسف

Bye

බායි (bāyi)
خدا حافظ

I Love You

මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vedda
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Sri Lanka
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sri Lankan Sinhala
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

-
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

-
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

112
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

16.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

සිංහල (sĩhala)
فارسی

Alternative Names

Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

singhalais
persan

German Name

Singhalesisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Sinhalese people
Persian people

History

Origin

3
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Modern Sinhalese
Persian

Language Position

7023
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Sinhalese
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

si
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sin
fas

ISO 639 2/B

sin
per

ISO 639 3

sin
pes

ISO 639 6

sin
pers

Glottocode

sinh1246
fars1254

Linguasphere

No data available
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Synthetic

Sinhalese and Persian Alphabets

Sinhalese and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Persian. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sinhalese and Persian Speaking population

Sinhalese and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Sinhalese vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Persian Language Codes

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