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Estonian and Sinhalese


Sinhalese and Estonian


Countries

Countries
Estonia, European Union   
Sri Lanka   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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

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

Alphabets
27   
9
54   
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
18   
15

How Many Consonants
18   
8
36   
26

Scripts
Latin   
Sinhala alphabet   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
8   
8
1   
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.10 million   
99+
16.00 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.25 %   
99+

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   

History

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   
70   
99+

Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Individual   

Code

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   

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All Estonian 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 Estonian and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Estonian and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Estonian are spoken in different Estonian Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Estonian vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Estonian dialects include: Keskmurre, Tartu. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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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.

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