Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish 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
Finnish
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Palun
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Head aega
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
eesti keel
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
estonien
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
13th century
  
3
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Estonian and Sinhalese Speaking population
Estonian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is Not Available 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 Estonian and Sinhalese on Estonian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Estonian and Sinhalese Language Codes
Estonian and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.