Countries
Sri Lanka
  
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
East Asia, European Union
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Akademio de Esperanto
  
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.
  
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Dankon
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Bonan nokton
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Bonan vesperon
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Bonan matenon
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Mi petas
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Ĝis poste
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Mi amas vin
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Pardonu!
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Not present
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not present
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not present
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
2.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
0.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Esperanto
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
French Name
singhalais
  
espéranto
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Esperanto
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[espeˈranto]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
3
  
1887
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Proto-Esperanto
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Esperanto
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signuno
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
eo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
epo
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
epo
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
epo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
espe1235
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAB-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Constructed
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Sinhalese and Esperanto 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 Esperanto greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Esperanto language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Esperanto word for "Thank You" is Dankon. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Esperanto Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Esperanto Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Esperanto difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Esperanto 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 Esperanto are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Esperanto, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Esperanto time required is 6 weeks.