Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Nepal
National Language
Sri Lanka
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan 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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Vedda
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not Available
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Available
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
singhalais
tibétain
German Name
Singhalesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sinh1246
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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Sinhalese and Tibetan 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 Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Tibetan language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.
