Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Malta
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
- 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
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Malti
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
maltais
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
3
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Maltese and Sinhalese Speaking population
Maltese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Maltese and Sinhalese on Maltese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maltese and Sinhalese Language Codes
Maltese and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.