Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Turkey, Uzbekistan
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Uzbek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Salom
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Rakhmat
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Qalay siz?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Hayirli tun
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Hayirli kech
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Hayirli kun
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Hayirli tong
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Iltimos
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Kechiring!
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Xayr
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Sizni sevaman
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Iltimos! Menga qarang
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Tashkent
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Afghan
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Ferghana
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
26.00 million
  
31
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
singhalais
  
ouszbek
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Usbekisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Uzbek
  
Origin
3
  
9th–12th centuries AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Southestern(Chagatai)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Chagatay
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Uzbek
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
uz
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
uzbe1247
  
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 Uzbek 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 Uzbek greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Uzbek language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Uzbek word for "Thank You" is Rakhmat. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Uzbek Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Uzbek Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Uzbek difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Uzbek 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 Uzbek are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Uzbek, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Uzbek time required is 44 weeks.