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Sinhalese

Uyghur
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Countries

Countries

Sri Lanka
China

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Sri Lanka
China

Second Language

Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

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.
  • Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
  • Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.

Similar To

Maldivian Language
Uzbek Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Gokturk Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5436
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

189
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3627
9 60
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Scripts

Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom

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)
Ässalamu läykum.

Thank You

ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
rakhmat

How Are You?

ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?

Good Night

සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun

Good Evening

සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!

Good Afternoon

සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
تۆنۈگۈن خەير

Good Morning

සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!

Please

කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
birdam

Sorry

සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
kachurung

Bye

බායි (bāyi)
Khayr khosh

I Love You

මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
sizni yahshi kOrman

Excuse Me

මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Kachurung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vedda
Turpan

Where They Speak

Sri Lanka
China

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sri Lankan Sinhala
Hotan

Where They Speak

-
China

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese
Lop Nur

Where They Speak

-
China

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

17
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million10.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

16.00 million8.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million25.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

සිංහල (sĩhala)
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)

Alternative Names

Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga

French Name

singhalais
ouïgour

German Name

Singhalesisch
Uigurisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]

Ethnicity

Sinhalese people
Uyghur

History

Origin

3
11

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Turkic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
-

Branch

Indic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Sinhalese Prakrit
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki

Standard Forms

Modern Sinhalese
Uyghur

Language Position

7098
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Sinhalese
Signed Uyghur

Scope

Individual
-

Code

ISO 639 1

si
ug

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sin
uig

ISO 639 2/B

sin
uig

ISO 639 3

sin
uig

ISO 639 6

sin
uig

Glottocode

sinh1246
uigh1240

Linguasphere

No data available
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
-

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
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Sinhalese and Uyghur Alphabets

Sinhalese and Uyghur Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Uyghur. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Uyghur Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Uyghur languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Uyghur 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 Uyghur greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Uyghur are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sinhalese and Uyghur Speaking population

Sinhalese and Uyghur speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Uyghur languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Uyghur Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Uyghur language is 0.12 %. 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 Uyghur on Sinhalese vs Uyghur where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Uyghur Language Codes

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