Countries
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Lao Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5444
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1832
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3644
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Thai
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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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Isan
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Isan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
-
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
-
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
19
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.85 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million20.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
singhalais
thaï
German Name
Singhalesisch
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
3
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tai
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Thai
Language Position
7047
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
tha
ISO 639 2/B
sin
tha
ISO 639 3
sin
tha
ISO 639 6
sin
tha
Glottocode
sinh1246
thai1261
Linguasphere
No data available
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating