Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
National Language
China, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Wu
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Yue
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
chinois
singhalais
German Name
Chinesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Han
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sini1245
sinh1246
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional
All Chinese 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 Chinese and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Chinese and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chinese are spoken in different Chinese Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chinese vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chinese dialects include: Mandarin, Wu. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Chinese and Sinhalese Speaking population
Chinese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % 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 Chinese and Sinhalese on Chinese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Sinhalese Language Codes
Chinese and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.