Countries
India
Sri Lanka
National Language
India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
NA
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
- 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
Bengali Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Vedda
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Not Available
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Available
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
goudjrati
singhalais
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
guja1252
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Gujarati 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 Gujarati and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Gujarati and Sinhalese language. Gujarati word for "Hello" is નમસ્તે (namaste) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Gujarati Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Gujarati vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Gujarati vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Gujarati 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 Gujarati and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Gujarati and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Gujarati is 18 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.