Countries
China, Nepal
Sri Lanka
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
- 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
Not Available
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Vedda
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not Available
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not Available
Where They Speak
China
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
tibétain
singhalais
German Name
Tibetisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
All Tibetan and Sinhalese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Sinhalese Speaking population
Tibetan and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan 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 Tibetan and Sinhalese on Tibetan vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Sinhalese Language Codes
Tibetan and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.