Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Sri Lanka
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 in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Vedda
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Not Available
Where They Speak
Germany
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Texas German
Not Available
Where They Speak
Texas
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Signed German
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
sinh1246
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
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.