Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Philippines
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
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.
  
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Hiligaynon Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Island of Cebu
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cebuano-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Hoy
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Kumusta man ka?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Maayong Hapon
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Maayong Buntag
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Palihug
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Ikasubo ko
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Babay
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Ekskyus mi
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Boholano
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Bohol
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Southern Kana
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
southern Leyte
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
North Kana
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
northern part of Leyte
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
14.50 million
  
19
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Visayan
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
French Name
singhalais
  
cebuano
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Cebuano
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Cebuano people
  
Origin
3
  
16th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Standard Cebuano
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
cebu1242
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Sinhalese and Cebuano Speaking population
Sinhalese and Cebuano speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Cebuano languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Cebuano Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cebuano language is 0.32 %. 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 Cebuano on Sinhalese vs Cebuano where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Cebuano Language Codes
Sinhalese and Cebuano language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Cebuano Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.