Countries
Sri Lanka
India
National Language
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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)
Not Available
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Munda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Henda ho
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Not Available
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Boge Setak’
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Not Available
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Not Available
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Not Available
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Not Available
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Not Available
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
India
Dialect 2
Not Available
Not present
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Available
Not present
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
singhalais
santal
German Name
Singhalesisch
Santali
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Santali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sinh1246
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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Sinhalese and Santali 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 Santali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Santali language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Santali word for "Thank You" is Adi Johar. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Santali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Santali Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Santali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Santali 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 Santali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Santali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Santali time required is Not Available.