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Uyghur vs Sinhalese


Sinhalese vs Uyghur


Countries

Countries
China  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

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

Alphabets
36  
18
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
18  
15

How Many Consonants
27  
17
36  
26

Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin  
Sinhala alphabet  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

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

Dialect 2
Hotan  
Sri Lankan Sinhala  

Where They Speak
China  
-  

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

Dialect 3
Lop Nur  
Up-Country Sinhalese  

Where They Speak
China  
-  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
7  
7
1  
1

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.12 %  
99+
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.20 million  
99+
16.00 million  
39

Second Language Speakers
25.00 million  
27
2.00 million  
99+

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
98  
99+
70  
99+

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  

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Uyghur and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of Uyghur vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of Uyghur and Sinhalese language. History of Uyghur language states that this language originated in 11 whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3. 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 Uyghur and Sinhalese Language History.

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

Uyghur vs Sinhalese Difficulty

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

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