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
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
- 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
Marathi
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
kaso assa?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Chike
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Adeus
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Antruz
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Goa
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
konkani
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Konkani
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Konkanis
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Kokani
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Konkani 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 Konkani and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Konkani and Sinhalese language. Konkani word for "Hello" is Namaskar or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Konkani Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Konkani vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Konkani vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Konkani 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 Konkani and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Konkani and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Konkani is 4 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.