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Countries

Countries

Vietnam
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Vietnam
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Czech Republic
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
  • The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  • 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

Chinese Language
Maldivian Language

Derived From

Chinese Language
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3754
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1218
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2136
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

32
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Xin chào
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Cam on
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Bạn khỏe không?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

Chúc ngủ ngon
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Chào buổi tối
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Chào buổi trưa
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Chào buổi sáng
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

xin vui lòng
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

Xin lỗi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Tạm biệt
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

tôi yêu bạn
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Xin loi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Vietnamese
Vedda

Where They Speak

Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

76,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

North-central Vietnamese
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
-

How Many People Speak

76,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Mid-Central Vietnamese
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
-

How Many People Speak

76,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

51
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

91.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.14 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

75.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

tiếng việt (㗂越)
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

vietnamien
singhalais

German Name

Vietnamesisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

c. 1440
3

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Indo-Iranian

Branch

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Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Standard Vietnamese
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

1470
1 120
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Signed Forms

Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

vi
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

vie
sin

ISO 639 2/B

vie
sin

ISO 639 3

vie
sin

ISO 639 6

vie
sin

Glottocode

viet1252
sinh1246

Linguasphere

46-EBA
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional

Vietnamese and Sinhalese Alphabets

Vietnamese and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Vietnamese and Sinhalese. In Vietnamese Alphabets there are 37 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Vietnamese and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Vietnamese and Sinhalese languages. The Vietnamese phonology consist Vietnamese vowels and Vietnamese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Vietnamese greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Vietnamese and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Vietnamese and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Vietnamese are spoken in different Vietnamese Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Vietnamese vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Vietnamese dialects include: Northern Vietnamese, North-central Vietnamese. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Vietnamese and Sinhalese Speaking population

Vietnamese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Vietnamese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Vietnamese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 % 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 Vietnamese and Sinhalese on Vietnamese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Vietnamese and Sinhalese Language Codes

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