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Sinhalese
Sinhalese

Tagalog
Tagalog



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Countries

Countries

Sri Lanka
Philippines

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Sri Lanka
Philippines

Second Language

Sri Lanka
Filipinos

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Australia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom

Regulated By

Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee

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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
  • The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".

Similar To

Maldivian Language
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5425
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

185
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3618
9 60
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Scripts

Sinhala alphabet
Baybayin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

23
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

හලෝ (halō)
Kamusta

Thank You

ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Salamat po

How Are You?

ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kamusta ka na?

Good Night

සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Magandang gabi

Good Evening

සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Magandang gabi po

Good Afternoon

සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Magandang hapon po

Good Morning

සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Magandang umaga po

Please

කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
pakiusap

Sorry

සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
pinagsisisihan

Bye

බායි (bāyi)
Paálam

I Love You

මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Iniibig kita

Excuse Me

මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vedda
Batangas Tagalog

Where They Speak

Sri Lanka
Batangas, Gabon

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sri Lankan Sinhala
Bisalog

Where They Speak

-
Philippines

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese
Filipino

Where They Speak

-
Philippines

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.0090,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

13
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million73.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

16.00 million28.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million45.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

සිංහල (sĩhala)
Tagalog

Alternative Names

Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Filipino, Pilipino

French Name

singhalais
tagalog

German Name

Singhalesisch
Tagalog

Pronunciation

[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]

Ethnicity

Sinhalese people
Tagalog people

History

Origin

3
1593

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Indonesian

Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog

Standard Forms

Modern Sinhalese
Filipino

Language Position

7058
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Sinhalese
Signed Tagalog

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

si
t1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sin
tgl

ISO 639 2/B

sin
tgl

ISO 639 3

sin
tg1

ISO 639 6

sin
tgl

Glottocode

sinh1246
taga1269

Linguasphere

No data available
31-CKA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
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Sinhalese and Tagalog Alphabets

Sinhalese and Tagalog Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Tagalog. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Tagalog Alphabets there are 25 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Tagalog languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Tagalog 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 Tagalog greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Tagalog are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sinhalese and Tagalog Speaking population

Sinhalese and Tagalog speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Tagalog languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Tagalog Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tagalog language is 0.42 %. 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 Tagalog on Sinhalese vs Tagalog where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Tagalog Language Codes

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