Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Sri Lanka
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Sri Lanka
Second Language
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
- 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
German and English Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
dankjewel
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
goede Nacht
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
goedenavond
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
alsjeblieft
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
pardon
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Not Available
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Not Available
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
Nederlands
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
singhalais
German Name
Niederländisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mode1257
sinh1246
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional
Dutch 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 Dutch and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Sinhalese language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Dutch vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch 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 Dutch and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.