Countries
Sri Lanka
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
India, Pakistan, Sindh
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
  
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 first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Gujarati
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sindhi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Arabic, Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Assalam O Alaikum
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Meharbani
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Kehra haal aahin
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
tava kia aayo
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Sham Jo Salam
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Assalam o Alaikum
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Subho Bakhair
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Mehrbani
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Moon khe afsos aahe
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Allah Wahi
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Maaf Kajo
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Siraiki
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Upper Sindh
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Vicholi
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Central Sindh
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Lari
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Lower Sindh
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
29.00 million
  
37
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Not Available
  
French Name
singhalais
  
sindhi
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Sindhi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
3
  
711 A.D
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Sindhi
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
sd
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
snd
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
snd
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
snd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
sind1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Sinhalese and Sindhi 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 Sindhi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Sindhi language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Sindhi word for "Thank You" is Meharbani. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Sindhi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Sindhi Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Sindhi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Sindhi 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 Sindhi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Sindhi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Sindhi time required is Not Available.