Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Sri Lanka
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- 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
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Asante
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
tafadhali
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
pole
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
nakupenda
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Samahani
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Kimrima
Not Available
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Not Available
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Not Available
Where They Speak
Kilwa
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Not Available
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
swahili
singhalais
German Name
Swahili
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Swahili
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
swah1254
sinh1246
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Swahili and Sinhalese 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 Swahili and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Sinhalese language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Swahili vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili Alphabets and Sinhalese 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 Swahili and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.