Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Meghalaya
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Bangladesh, India
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not Available
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not Available
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Bengali, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Kumno
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Khublei
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Kumno phi long?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
thia sukh
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
babha janmiet
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
babha noph-phai-sngi
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
khublei
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sngewbha
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Map
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
khublei
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
ieit ieit
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
map a nga
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Bhoi
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Nonglung
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Cherrapunji
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
0.84 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
0.84 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
  
French Name
singhalais
  
khasi
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Khasi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Khasi people
  
Origin
3
  
Not Available
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No Early Forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Khasi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
kha
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
kha
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
kha
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
khas1269
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Sinhalese and Khasi 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 Khasi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Khasi language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Khasi word for "Thank You" is Khublei. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Khasi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Khasi Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Khasi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Khasi 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 Khasi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Khasi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Khasi time required is Not Available.