Countries
West Java
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
  
- 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
Madurese and Malay Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Sundanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin, Sundanese
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Halo
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Nuhun
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Kumaha kabarna?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Wilujeng kulem
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Wilujeng wengi
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Wilujeng siang
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Wilujeng énjing
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Mangga
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Hapunten
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Wilujeng angkat
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Punten
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Western dialect
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Banten
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Northern dialect
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Bogor
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Priangan dialect
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Bandung
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Not Available
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Priangan, Sunda
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
soundanais
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Sundanesisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
5th century AD
  
3
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Sundanese
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
su
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sun
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
sun
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
sun
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sund1251
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Sundanese and Sinhalese Speaking population
Sundanese and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sundanese and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Sundanese and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sundanese language is 0.57 % 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 Sundanese and Sinhalese on Sundanese vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sundanese and Sinhalese Language Codes
Sundanese and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sundanese and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.