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Sinhalese vs Chinese


Chinese vs Sinhalese


Countries

Countries
Sri Lanka   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
5   
10

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

Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Chinese.jpg#200   

Alphabets
54   
33
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
18   
15
24   
19

How Many Consonants
36   
26
23   
13

Scripts
Sinhala alphabet   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
1   
1
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
16.00 million   
99+
1,051.00 million   
2

Speaking Population
0.25 %   
99+
16.00 %   
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   

History

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   

Language Position
70   
99+
1   
1

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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Sinhalese and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Sinhalese vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Sinhalese and Chinese language. History of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3 whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Sinhalese and Chinese Language History.

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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.

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