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Uyghur
Uyghur

Sinhalese
Sinhalese



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Countries

Countries

China
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

China
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
  • Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  • 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

Uzbek Language
Maldivian Language

Derived From

Gokturk Language
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3654
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

918
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2736
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

52
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ässalamu läykum.
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

rakhmat
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

تۆنۈگۈن خەير
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

birdam
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

kachurung
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Khayr khosh
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

sizni yahshi kOrman
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Kachurung
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Turpan
Vedda

Where They Speak

China
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hotan
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

China
-

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Lop Nur
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

China
-

How Many People Speak

25,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

71
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

10.40 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.12 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.20 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

25.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

ouïgour
singhalais

German Name

Uigurisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Uyghur
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

11
3

Language Family

Turkic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Uyghur
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

9870
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Uyghur
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ug
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

uig
sin

ISO 639 2/B

uig
sin

ISO 639 3

uig
sin

ISO 639 6

uig
sin

Glottocode

uigh1240
sinh1246

Linguasphere

No data Available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

-
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional

Uyghur and Sinhalese Alphabets

Uyghur and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Uyghur and Sinhalese. In Uyghur Alphabets there are 36 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Uyghur and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Uyghur and Sinhalese languages. The Uyghur phonology consist Uyghur vowels and Uyghur consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Uyghur greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Uyghur and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Uyghur and Sinhalese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Uyghur and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Uyghur and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Uyghur are spoken in different Uyghur Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Uyghur vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Uyghur dialects include: Turpan, Hotan. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Uyghur and Sinhalese Speaking population

Uyghur and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Uyghur and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Uyghur and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Uyghur language is 0.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Uyghur and Sinhalese on Uyghur vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Uyghur and Sinhalese Language Codes

Uyghur and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Uyghur and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.