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Sinhalese vs Uyghur


Uyghur vs Sinhalese


Countries

Countries
Sri Lanka  
China  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

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
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
54  
33
36  
18

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
18  
15
9  
6

How Many Consonants
36  
26
27  
17

Scripts
Sinhala alphabet  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

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
19,000,000.00  
30
10,000,000.00  
37

Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala  
Hotan  

Where They Speak
-  
China  

How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00  
27
10,000,000.00  
37

Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese  
Lop Nur  

Where They Speak
-  
China  

How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00  
27
25,000,000.00  
21

Total No. Of Dialects
1  
1
7  
7

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
16.00 million  
99+
10.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.25 %  
99+
0.12 %  
99+

Native Speakers
16.00 million  
39
8.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million  
99+
25.00 million  
27

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
70  
99+
98  
99+

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  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
-  

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Sinhalese and Uyghur Language History

Comparison of Sinhalese vs Uyghur language history gives us differences between origin of Sinhalese and Uyghur language. History of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3 whereas history of Uyghur language states that this language originated in 11. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Sinhalese and Uyghur Language History.

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Sinhalese and Uyghur 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 Uyghur greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Uyghur language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Uyghur word for "Thank You" is rakhmat. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Uyghur Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Sinhalese vs Uyghur Difficulty

The Sinhalese vs Uyghur difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Uyghur 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 Uyghur are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Uyghur, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Uyghur time required is 44 weeks.

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