Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
  
- 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
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Hungarian-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
szia
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
köszönöm
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
jó Estét
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Kérlek
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
bocsi
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
viszlát
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Szeretlek
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
elnézést
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Csángó
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Oberwart
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Austria
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Székely
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Székely Land
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
0.07 million
  
38
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Magyar
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
hongrois
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Ungarisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hungarians
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1192 AD
  
3
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Ugric
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hu
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hun
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
hun
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
hun
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hung1274
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
ohu
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Hungarian 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 Hungarian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and Sinhalese language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hungarian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Hungarian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian 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 Hungarian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.