Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Institute of the Estonian 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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Tere
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Palun
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
0.95 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
singhalais
  
estonien
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Estonians
  
Origin
3
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Indic
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Sinhalese and Estonian 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 Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Estonian language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Estonian Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Estonian 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 Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.