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
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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
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional
Tibetan 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 Tibetan and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Sinhalese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan 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 Tibetan and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.
