Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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)
  
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Turkish
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Osmanly language
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Salam
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
necəsən
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
yaxşı gecə
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Axşamınız xeyir
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Sabahınız xeyir
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
lütfən
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
üzr
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
xudafiz
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Bağışlayın
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Derbent
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Russia
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Gazakh
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Azerbaijan
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Baku
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Azerbaijan
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
26.00 million
  
39
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
French Name
singhalais
  
azéri
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Azerbaijani
  
Origin
3
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Azerbaijani
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
az
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
aze
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
aze
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
aze
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
azer1255
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Sinhalese and Azerbaijani Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sinhalese and Azerbaijani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Azerbaijani language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Azerbaijani word for "Thank You" is Təşəkkür edirəm. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Azerbaijani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Azerbaijani Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Azerbaijani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Azerbaijani Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sinhalese and Azerbaijani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Azerbaijani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Azerbaijani time required is 44 weeks.