Countries
India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
National Language
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- 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
Hindi
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
कृपया
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
Nepal
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Not Available
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Not Available
Where They Speak
Nepal
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
népalais
singhalais
German Name
Nepali
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
sinh1246
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional
All Nepali and Sinhalese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Nepali and Sinhalese Speaking population
Nepali and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % 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 Nepali and Sinhalese on Nepali vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Nepali and Sinhalese Language Codes
Nepali and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.