Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Sri Lanka
National Language
Turkey
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
İyi Geceler
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
günaydın
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
lütfen
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
üzgünüm
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Vedda
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
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Dialect 3
Gagauz
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
-
Native Name
Türkçe
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
turc
singhalais
German Name
Türkisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Indic
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
nucl1301
sinh1246
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional
Turkish and Sinhalese 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 Turkish and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Sinhalese language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Turkish vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish Alphabets and Sinhalese 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 Turkish and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.