Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Sri Lanka
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
شكرا
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
تصبح على خير
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
مساء الخير
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
صباح الخير
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
من فضلك
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
آسف
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
أحبك
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
اعذرني
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Not Available
Where They Speak
Sudan
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Not Available
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
arabe
singhalais
German Name
Arabisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Arabs
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Arabic
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
sinh1246
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Arabic and Sinhalese Speaking population
Arabic and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % 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 Arabic and Sinhalese on Arabic vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Arabic and Sinhalese Language Codes
Arabic and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.