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Sinhalese and Finnish


Finnish and Sinhalese


Countries

Countries
Sri Lanka  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Sri Lanka  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Sri Lanka  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

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.
  
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  

Similar To
Maldivian Language  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Sanskrit Language  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
54  
33
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
18  
15
8  
5

How Many Consonants
36  
26
13  
3

Scripts
Sinhala alphabet  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
හලෝ (halō)  
Moi  

Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)  
haluta  

Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)  
Anteeksi  

Bye
බායි (bāyi)  
Heippa  

I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Vedda  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Sri Lanka  
Finland  

Dialect 2
Not Available  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
Finland, Rauma  

Dialect 3
Not Available  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
1  
1
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
16.00 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.25 %  
99+
Not Available  

Native Speakers
16.00 million  
39
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million  
34
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala  
Suomi  

French Name
singhalais  
finnois  

German Name
Singhalesisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Sinhalese people  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
3  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Indic  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
70  
99+
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
si  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
sin  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
sin  
fin  

ISO 639 3
sin  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sinh1246  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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All Sinhalese and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sinhalese and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Not Available. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Sinhalese and Finnish Speaking population

Sinhalese and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available. 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 Finnish on Sinhalese vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Finnish Language Codes

Sinhalese and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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