Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Haiti
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Haiti
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Central America, North America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Cuba
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
  
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.
  
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
French Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
HaitianCreole-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Bonjou
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Mèsi
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Kijan ou yé?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Bon nwit
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Bonswa
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Bon apre-midi
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Bon apre-midi
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Souple
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Dezole
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Babay
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Mwen renmen w
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Eskize m
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Northern Haitian Creole
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Cap-Haitien
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Central Haitian Creole
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Port-au-Prince
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Southern Haitian Creole
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Cayes
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
9.60 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
9.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Kreyòl ayisyen
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
  
French Name
singhalais
  
haïtien; créole haïtien
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[kɣejɔl]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Haitians
  
Origin
3
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Haitian Creole
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
ht
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
hat
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
hat
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
hat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
hait1244
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAC-cb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Sinhalese and Haitian Creole Speaking population
Sinhalese and Haitian Creole speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Haitian Creole languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Haitian Creole Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Haitian Creole language is 0.15 %. 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 Haitian Creole on Sinhalese vs Haitian Creole where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Haitian Creole Language Codes
Sinhalese and Haitian Creole language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Haitian Creole Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.