Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Ethiopia
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Somalia
  
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.
  
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Somali Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
akkam
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Galatoomi
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Nagayattii buli
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Akkam waarite
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Maaloo
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
naa dhiisi
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Nagayattii!
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Sin jaaladha
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Borana
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
19
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Orma
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Wata
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Afaan Oromoo
  
French Name
singhalais
  
galla
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Galla-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Oromos
  
Origin
3
  
16
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
om
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
orm
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
orm
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
orm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
nucl1736
  
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 Oromo 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 Oromo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Oromo language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Oromo word for "Thank You" is Galatoomi. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Oromo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Oromo Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Oromo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Oromo 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 Oromo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Oromo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Oromo time required is Not Available.