Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Nigeria
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hausa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
sannu
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
gode ku
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
yaya dai
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
mai kyau dare
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
barka da yamma
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
barka da rana
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
mai kyau safe
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Don Allah
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
yi hakuri
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
sai anjima
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Ina son ku
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
gafara dai
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Gaananci
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Ghana
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Kurhwayanci
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Niger
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Daragaram
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Niger
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
50.00 million
  
28
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
35.00 million
  
27
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
French Name
singhalais
  
haoussa
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Haussa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Origin
3
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Chadic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Hausa
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
ha
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
hau
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
hau
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
hau
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
haus1257
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
19-HAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional
  
Sinhalese and Hausa Speaking population
Sinhalese and Hausa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Hausa languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Hausa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hausa language is 0.52 %. 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 Hausa on Sinhalese vs Hausa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Hausa Language Codes
Sinhalese and Hausa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Hausa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.