Countries
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most widely spoken indigenous language in the America is Quechua.
- Quechua language has borrowed many words from Spanish.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Quechua-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Rimaykullayki
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Solpayki
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Allillanchu
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Allin tuta
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Wuynas nuchis
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Wuynas tardis
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Wuynus diyas
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Not Available
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Pampachaykuway
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
bye
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Kuyayki
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Pampachaway
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Ancash
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Peru
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Huánuco
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Peru
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yaru
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Peru
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.90 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
8.90 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Qhichwa
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
North La Paz Quechua
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
quechua
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Quechua-Sprache
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Quechua
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
16th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Quechumaran Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Andean Equatorial
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Quechua
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
qu
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
que
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
que
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
que
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
quec1387
  
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, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Quechua and Sinhalese Speaking population
Quechua and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Quechua and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Quechua and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Quechua language is 0.13 % 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 Quechua and Sinhalese on Quechua vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Quechua and Sinhalese Language Codes
Quechua and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Quechua and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.