Countries
Sri Lanka
  
India
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Bangladesh, India
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Interesting Facts
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Bengali and Oriya
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Bengali
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
nomoskaar
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
aapuni kene aase?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
subhoraattri
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
subha gadhuli
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
subha abeli
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
suprobhaat
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
anugroha kori
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
moi ḍukkhita
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
biḍai
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
kyoma koribo
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Kamrupi
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Western Assam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Goalpariya
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Western Assam
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Bhakatiya
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Assam
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
15.30 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
15.00 million
  
40
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
French Name
singhalais
  
assamais
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Assamesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Assamese people
  
Origin
3
  
7th century A.D
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Kamarupa
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Assamese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
as
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
asm
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
asm
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
asm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
assa1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-w
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Sinhalese and Assamese Speaking population
Sinhalese and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. 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 Sinhalese and Assamese on Sinhalese vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Assamese Language Codes
Sinhalese and Assamese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Assamese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.