Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Rajastan, India
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Rajastan, India
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nepal, Pakistan
  
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.
  
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Gujarati Language
  
Alphabets in
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Marwari-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
khammaghani
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
dhanyavaad
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Kikan ho sa?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
shubh raatri
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Shubh Honjh
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Shubh Befar
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Shubh Havar
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
kirpa
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Maaf Karo
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
bye
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
main tanne pyaar karoon
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
maaf karo
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Jogi
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
India
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Bagri
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Dhundhari
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
India
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
14.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Marwari
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
  
French Name
singhalais
  
marvari
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Marwari
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Marwari or Marwadi
  
Origin
3
  
16
  
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
  
Marwari
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
mwr
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
mwr
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
mwr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
raja1256
  
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 Marwari Speaking population
Sinhalese and Marwari speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Marwari languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Marwari Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Marwari language is 0.21 %. 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 Marwari on Sinhalese vs Marwari where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Marwari Language Codes
Sinhalese and Marwari language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Marwari Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.