Countries
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
- 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
Turkish
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Osmanly language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Salam
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
necəsən
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
yaxşı gecə
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Axşamınız xeyir
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Günortanız Xeyir
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Sabahınız xeyir
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
lütfən
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
üzr
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
xudafiz
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Mən səni sevirəm
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Bağışlayın
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Derbent
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Russia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Gazakh
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Baku
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
26.00 million
  
39
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
azéri
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Azerbaijani
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
16th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Azerbaijani
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
az
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aze
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
aze
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
aze
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
azer1255
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Azerbaijani 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 Azerbaijani and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Azerbaijani and Sinhalese language. Azerbaijani word for "Hello" is Salam or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Azerbaijani Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Azerbaijani vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Azerbaijani vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Azerbaijani 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 Azerbaijani and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Azerbaijani and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Azerbaijani is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.