Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
France
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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
Italian Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
French-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
bonjour
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
français
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
français
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
French 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 French and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Sinhalese language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common French Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The French vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of French 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 French and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.