Countries
Zimbabwe
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
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
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
  
- 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
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Mhoro
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
bye
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Not Available
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
shona
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
20th century
  
3
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Shona 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 Shona and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Sinhalese language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Shona vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona 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 Shona and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is Not Available while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.