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Sinhalese vs Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
1  
14

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

Alphabets in
Chinese.jpg#200  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24  
19
18  
15

How Many Consonants
23  
13
36  
26

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Sinhala alphabet  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin  
Vedda  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  
Sri Lanka  

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00  
1
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Wu  
Not Available  

Where They Speak
China, United States of America  
Not Available  

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00  
1
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Yue  
Not Available  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  
Not Available  

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00  
2
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
1  
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million  
2
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
873.00 million  
1
16.00 million  
39

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million  
3
2.00 million  
34

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  

History

Origin
1250 BC  
3  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan 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 Chinese  
Modern Sinhalese  

Language Position
1  
1
70  
99+

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
zh  
si  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho  
sin  

ISO 639 2/B
chi  
sin  

ISO 639 3
zho  
sin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sini1245  
sinh1246  

Linguasphere
79-AAA  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Fusional  

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Chinese and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Sinhalese language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Chinese and Sinhalese Language History.

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Chinese 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 Chinese and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Sinhalese language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Sinhalese Difficulty

The Chinese vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.

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