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Finnish and Sinhalese


Sinhalese and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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

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

Alphabets
29  
11
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
18  
15

How Many Consonants
13  
3
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
Sinhala alphabet  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
හලෝ (halō)  

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)  

Bye
Heippa  
බායි (bāyi)  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)  

Dialects

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
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
1  
1

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
16.00 million  
39

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
2.00 million  
34

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  

History

Origin
1543  
3  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Finnic  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Sinhalese Prakrit  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Modern Sinhalese  

Language Position
Not Available  
70  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
si  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
sin  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
sin  

ISO 639 3
fin  
sin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
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, Synthetic  
Fusional  

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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.

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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.

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