Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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.
  
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
maaf
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
singhalais
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
3
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Indonesian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
indo1316
  
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
  
Sinhalese and Indonesian Speaking population
Sinhalese and Indonesian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Indonesian languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Indonesian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 %. 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 Indonesian on Sinhalese vs Indonesian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Indonesian Language Codes
Sinhalese and Indonesian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Indonesian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.