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Sinhalese vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
1  
14

National Language
Germany  
Sri Lanka  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Sri Lanka  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Maldivian Language  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
18  
15

How Many Consonants
9  
1
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
Sinhala alphabet  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
හලෝ (halō)  

Thank You
Danke  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)  

Please
bitte  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)  

Bye
Tschüs  
බායි (bāyi)  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Vedda  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Sri Lanka  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Not Available  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Not Available  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Not Available  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Not Available  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
1  
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
16.00 million  
39

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
2.00 million  
34

Native Name
Deutsch  
සිංහල (sĩhala)  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala  

French Name
allemand  
singhalais  

German Name
Deutsch  
Singhalesisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Sinhalese people  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
3  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Western  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Sinhalese Prakrit  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Modern Sinhalese  

Language Position
9  
9
70  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
si  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
sin  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
sin  

ISO 639 3
deu  
sin  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
sinh1246  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional  

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German and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of German vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of German and Sinhalese language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on German and Sinhalese Language History.

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German 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 German and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Sinhalese language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common German Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

German vs Sinhalese Difficulty

The German vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.

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