Countries
Fiji, India
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
India
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
- 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
Urdu
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Khariboli
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Marwari
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Bundeli
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million
  
5
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
260.00 million
  
4
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million
  
6
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
हिन्दी
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
hindi
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Hindi
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
7th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hi
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hin
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
hin
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
hin
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
hins
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hind1269
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Hindi 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 Hindi and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hindi and Sinhalese language. Hindi word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (Namastē) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Hindi Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hindi vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Hindi vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hindi 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 Hindi and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hindi and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hindi is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.