Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Ghana
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Akan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ete-sen
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
meda ase
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
maadwo
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
maadwo
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
maaha
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
maakye
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
wae
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Kafra
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
bye
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Me doכ wo
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Asante
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
13
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Akuapem
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Fante
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Akan
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
akan
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Akan-Sprache
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Akan people
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
15
  
3
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Akan
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ak
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aka
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
aka
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
aka
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
akan1251
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Akan 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 Akan and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Akan and Sinhalese language. Akan word for "Hello" is ete-sen or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Akan Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Akan vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Akan vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Akan 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 Akan and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Akan and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Akan is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.