Countries
Sri Lanka
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Not Available
  
French Name
singhalais
  
chinois
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Han
  
Origin
3
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Sinhalese and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Chinese language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Chinese Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.