Finnish and Sinhalese
Countries
European Union, Finland
Sri Lanka
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Estonia
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Kiitos
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
haluta
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Anteeksi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Vedda
Where They Speak
Finland
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Rauma
Not Available
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Not Available
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Not Available
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
finnois
singhalais
German Name
Finnisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
Not Available
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
finn1318
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional
All Finnish 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 Finnish and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Finnish and Sinhalese Speaking population
Finnish and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish 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 Finnish and Sinhalese on Finnish vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Sinhalese Language Codes
Finnish and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.