Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
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.
  
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Biko
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Ndo
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Ibo
  
French Name
singhalais
  
igbo
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
3
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Sinhalese and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Igbo language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Igbo Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Igbo 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 Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.