Countries
Vietnam
Sri Lanka
National Language
Vietnam
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
- 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
Chinese Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Xin chào
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Cam on
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
xin vui lòng
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Xin lỗi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Vedda
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Not Available
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Not Available
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Not Available
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Not Available
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
vietnamien
singhalais
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Not Available
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
viet1252
sinh1246
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional
Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Vietnamese and Sinhalese language. Vietnamese word for "Hello" is Xin chào or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Vietnamese Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Vietnamese vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Vietnamese vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Vietnamese and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Vietnamese is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.