Countries
Sri Lanka
  
China
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
China
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  
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.
  
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Uzbek Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Gokturk Language
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Ässalamu läykum.
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
rakhmat
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
birdam
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
kachurung
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Khayr khosh
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
sizni yahshi kOrman
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Kachurung
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Turpan
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
China
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Hotan
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
China
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Lop Nur
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
China
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
10.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
  
French Name
singhalais
  
ouïgour
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Uigurisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Uyghur
  
Origin
3
  
11
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Uyghur
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
ug
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
uig
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
uig
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
uig
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
uigh1240
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Sinhalese and Uyghur 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 Uyghur greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Uyghur language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Uyghur word for "Thank You" is rakhmat. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Uyghur Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Uyghur Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Uyghur difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Uyghur 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 Uyghur are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Uyghur, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Uyghur time required is 44 weeks.