Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Somalia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
- 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
Somali Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
akkam
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Galatoomi
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Maaloo
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
naa dhiisi
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Nagayattii!
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Borana
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Orma
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Wata
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
24.00 million
  
33
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
galla
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Galla-Sprache
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Oromos
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
16
  
3
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
om
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
orm
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
orm
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
orm
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1736
  
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
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Oromo 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 Oromo and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Oromo and Sinhalese language. Oromo word for "Hello" is akkam or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Oromo Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Oromo vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Oromo vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Oromo 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 Oromo and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Oromo and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Oromo is Not Available while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.