Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
- 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
Indonesian Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
sila
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
malais
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
3
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
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
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Sinhalese language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.