Countries
Sri Lanka
  
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
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)
  
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.
  
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
zoo hmo
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
zoo tav su
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
thov
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Kuv hlub koj
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
zam txim rau kuv
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Hmong Njua
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Laos
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Hmong Daw
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
21
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Hmong Do
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
4.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
3.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Hmong
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Mong
  
French Name
singhalais
  
hmong
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Miao-Sprachen
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Hmong people
  
Origin
3
  
19
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Hmong
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
hmv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
firs1234
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Sinhalese and Hmong Speaking population
Sinhalese and Hmong speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Hmong languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Hmong Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hmong language is 0.13 %. 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 Hmong on Sinhalese vs Hmong where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Hmong Language Codes
Sinhalese and Hmong language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Hmong Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.