Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Mongolia
National Language
Sri Lanka
China, Mongolia
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)
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Turkish Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Mongolia
Dialect 2
Not Available
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Available
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Mongolia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
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French Name
singhalais
mongol
German Name
Singhalesisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Mongolian
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sinh1246
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data available
part of 44-BAA-b
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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Sinhalese and Mongolian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sinhalese and Mongolian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Mongolian language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Mongolian word for "Thank You" is та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa). Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Mongolian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Mongolian Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Mongolian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Mongolian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sinhalese and Mongolian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Mongolian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Mongolian time required is 44 weeks.