Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Somalia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Yemen
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
  
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Habeenka Good
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Evening Good
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Fadlan
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
caraysiiyo
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Benaadir
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
af Soomaali
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
somali
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Somali
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Somalis
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
19th century
  
3
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Somali
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
so
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
som
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
som
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
som
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
soma1255
  
sinh1246
  
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
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Somali and Sinhalese Speaking population
Somali and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Somali and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Somali and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Somali language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Somali and Sinhalese on Somali vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Somali and Sinhalese Language Codes
Somali and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Somali and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.