Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Sri Lanka
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
- 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
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Vedda
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Mappila
Not Available
Where They Speak
India
Not Available
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Not Available
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
malayalam
singhalais
German Name
Malayalam
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Malayali
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early form
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mala1464
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional
Malayalam 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 Malayalam and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malayalam and Sinhalese language. Malayalam word for "Hello" is ഹലോ (halēā) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Malayalam Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malayalam vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Malayalam vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malayalam 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 Malayalam and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malayalam and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malayalam is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.