Countries
South Africa
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
  
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Molo
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Unjani
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Molo
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Ndicela
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Uxolo
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Thembu
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hlubi
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
South Africa
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
8.20 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million
  
21
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
isiXhosa
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
xhosa
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
16th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
xh
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
xho
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
xho
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
xho
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
xhos1239
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Xhosa and Sinhalese Speaking population
Xhosa and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Xhosa and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Xhosa and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 % 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 Xhosa and Sinhalese on Xhosa vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Xhosa and Sinhalese Language Codes
Xhosa and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Xhosa and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.