Countries
China
Sri Lanka
National Language
China
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- 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
Uzbek Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Gokturk Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
rakhmat
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Not Available
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
birdam
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
kachurung
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Khayr khosh
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Kachurung
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Where They Speak
China
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Hotan
Not Available
Where They Speak
China
Not Available
Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Not Available
Where They Speak
China
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
ouïgour
singhalais
German Name
Uigurisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
uigh1240
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
Uyghur 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 Uyghur and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Uyghur and Sinhalese language. Uyghur word for "Hello" is Ässalamu läykum. or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Uyghur Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Uyghur vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Uyghur vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Uyghur 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 Uyghur and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Uyghur and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Uyghur is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.