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Sinhalese
Sinhalese

Tulu
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Countries

Countries

Sri Lanka
India

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Sri Lanka
India

Second Language

Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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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.
  • Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
  • Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.

Similar To

Maldivian Language
Kannada Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5451
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1816
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3635
9 60
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Scripts

Sinhala alphabet
Kannada Script

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

25
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

හලෝ (halō)
Namaskara

Thank You

ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Mast Upakara.

How Are You?

ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Yencha Ullar?

Good Night

සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
yedde rathre

Good Evening

සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
yedde baiyya

Good Afternoon

සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
yedde madhyana

Good Morning

සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
yedde kaande

Please

කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Daya maltadu

Sorry

සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Yenna thapu aandu

Bye

බායි (bāyi)
Barpe

I Love You

මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye

Excuse Me

මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Kshamisi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vedda
Brahmin tulu

Where They Speak

Sri Lanka
Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sri Lankan Sinhala
Jain

Where They Speak

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Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.001,900,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese
Girijan

Where They Speak

-
Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.002.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

14
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million1.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

16.00 million1.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

සිංහල (sĩhala)
Tulu

Alternative Names

Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa

French Name

singhalais
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German Name

Singhalesisch
Tulu

Pronunciation

[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈtulu]

Ethnicity

Sinhalese people
Tuluva

History

Origin

3
14

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Sinhalese
Tulu

Language Position

7023
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Sinhalese
Signed Tulu

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

si
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sin
tcy

ISO 639 2/B

sin
tul

ISO 639 3

sin
tcy

ISO 639 6

sin
tcy

Glottocode

sinh1246
tulu1258

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
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Sinhalese and Tulu Alphabets

Sinhalese and Tulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Tulu. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Tulu Alphabets there are 51 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Tulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Tulu 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 Tulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Tulu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sinhalese and Tulu Speaking population

Sinhalese and Tulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Tulu languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Tulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tulu language is 0.01 %. 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 Tulu on Sinhalese vs Tulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Tulu Language Codes

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