Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
East Asia, European Union
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
- 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
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Dankon
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Bonan nokton
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Bonan matenon
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Mi petas
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Ĝis poste
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Mi amas vin
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Pardonu!
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.20 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Esperanto
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
espéranto
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Esperanto
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1887
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Esperanto
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signuno
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
eo
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
epo
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
epo
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
epo
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
espe1235
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Constructed
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Esperanto 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 Esperanto and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Esperanto and Sinhalese language. Esperanto word for "Hello" is Halo or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Esperanto Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Esperanto vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Esperanto vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Esperanto 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 Esperanto and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Esperanto and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Esperanto is 6 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.