Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
zoo hmo
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
thov
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Laos
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
21
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
3.70 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Hmong
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Mong
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
hmong
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hmong people
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
19
  
3
  
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Hmong
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
hmv
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
firs1234
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Hmong 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 Hmong and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hmong and Sinhalese language. Hmong word for "Hello" is Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Hmong Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hmong vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Hmong vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hmong 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 Hmong and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hmong and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hmong is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.