Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Nepal
National Language
Sri Lanka
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Vedda
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not Available
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Available
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
singhalais
tibétain
German Name
Singhalesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sinh1246
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Not Available
All Sinhalese and Tibetan Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sinhalese and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Not Available. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Sinhalese and Tibetan Speaking population
Sinhalese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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 Tibetan on Sinhalese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Tibetan Language Codes
Sinhalese and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.