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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Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Marwari
Not Available
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Not Available
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
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 6
hins
Not Available
Glottocode
hind1269
sinh1246
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
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.