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Sri Lanka
1
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Asia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Maldivian Language
Sanskrit Language
 
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54
18
36
Sinhala alphabet
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2
44 weeks
 
හලෝ (halō)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
බායි (bāyi)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
 
Vedda
Sri Lanka
19,000,000.00
Sri Lankan Sinhala
-
19,000,000.00
Up-Country Sinhalese
-
16,000,000.00
1
 
16.00 million
0.25 %
16.00 million
2.00 million
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
singhalais
Singhalesisch
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Sinhalese people
 
3
Indo-European Family
Indo-Iranian
Indic
Sinhalese Prakrit
Modern Sinhalese
70
Signed Sinhalese
Individual
 
si
sin
sin
sin
sin
sinh1246
No data available
Living
Subject-Object-Verb
Fusional
 
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
4
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
    Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
    Arabic Language
     
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    24
    5
    21
    Latin
    -
    3
    36 weeks
     
    Habari
    Asante
    Habari gani?
    Usiku mwema
    Habari za jioni
    nzuri Alasiri
    Habari za asubuhi
    tafadhali
    pole
    bye
    nakupenda
    Samahani
     
    Kiunguja
    Zanzibar island
    75,000,000.00
    Kimrima
    Dar es Salaam
    75,000,000.00
    Kimgao
    Kilwa
    75,000,000.00
    12
     
    150.00 million
    0.42 %
    15.00 million
    75.00 million
    Kiswahili
    Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
    swahili
    Swahili
    [swaˈhili]
    Swahili people or Waswahili
     
    6th century
    Niger-Congo Family
    Benue-Congo
    Bantu
    No early forms
    Swahili
    21
    Swahili Sign Language
    Individual, Macrolanguage
     
    sw
    swa
    swa
    swa
    swa
    swah1254
    99-AUS-m
    Living
    -
    -

    Sinhalese and Swahili Alphabets

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

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

    Sinhalese and Swahili Speaking population

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

    Sinhalese and Swahili Language Codes

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