Countries
Philippines
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Philippines
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
- 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
Hiligaynon Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Island of Cebu
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Cebuano-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hoy
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Salamat
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Maayong Gabii
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Palihug
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Ikasubo ko
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Babay
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Boholano
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Bohol
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Southern Kana
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
southern Leyte
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
North Kana
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
14.50 million
  
19
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Visayan
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
cebuano
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Cebuano
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Cebuano people
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
16th century
  
3
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data Available
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ceb
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
ceb
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
ceb
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cebu1242
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Cebuano and Sinhalese Speaking population
Cebuano and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cebuano and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Cebuano and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cebuano language is 0.32 % 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 Cebuano and Sinhalese on Cebuano vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cebuano and Sinhalese Language Codes
Cebuano and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cebuano and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.