Translate English to Sinhala
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Common English to Sinhala translations
| English | Sinhala | Pronunciation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hello | අය්බෝවන් | ah-yoo-BOH-wahn | ||
| Thank you | ස්තූතියි | STOO-thee-yee | ||
| Goodbye | අයිබෝවන් | ah-yee-BOH-wahn | ||
| Good morning | (Good morning) | good MOR-ning | ||
| Please | (Please) | pleez | ||
| How much is this? | (How much?) | how much | ||
| Where is the bathroom? | (Bathroom?) | BAHTH-room | ||
| I do not understand | (I don't understand) | not understand | ||
| Can you help me? | (Help me?) | help mee | ||
| I would like tea | (Tea please) | tee pleez | ||
| The bill, please | (Bill please) | bil pleez | ||
| Nice to meet you | (Nice to meet you) | meet yoo | ||
| I need a doctor | (Need doctor) | DOK-ter | ||
| Excuse me | (Excuse me) | eks-KYOOZ mee |
Tips for English to Sinhala translation
Sinhala uses a unique rounded script derived from ancient Brahmi, spoken by about 17 million people in Sri Lanka. It is an Indo-Aryan language with significant Dravidian and Pali/Sanskrit influence.
Sinhala has a complex honorific system with three speech levels. The translator outputs polite forms by default.
Sinhala script has over 50 characters. The rounded shapes evolved to prevent palm leaf manuscripts from tearing.
Sinhala has borrowed from Portuguese, Dutch, and English due to colonial history.
About the Sinhala language
Sinhala is the majority language of Sri Lanka, spoken by about 17 million Sinhalese people. It coexists with Tamil, the other major language of the island.
Sri Lanka is known for its tea production, Buddhist temples, cricket, and stunning natural beauty. Sinhala literature has a 2,000-year history.
Word order and the missing “the”
Sinhala puts the verb at the end of the sentence, so “I read the book” comes back in the order “I the-book read.” Everything your English says early, Sinhala saves for last.
Articles work through word endings instead of separate words. Pota is “the book” and potak is “a book”; the difference between “a” and “the” folds into the final syllable. When you scan the output for your English articles, do not expect them as standalone words. They are inside the nouns.
Written Sinhala and spoken Sinhala
Sinhala keeps a wide gap between its written standard and everyday speech, wider than most languages. Sri Lankan children learn the written form at school as something close to a second register. Translation output follows that written standard, which is exactly right for letters, signs, and documents, and noticeably formal for a chat message. If you are texting a friend in Colombo, expect the reply to sound looser than what you sent.
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No. They are Sri Lanka's two major languages but belong to different families: Sinhala is Indo-Aryan, Tamil is Dravidian. The scripts are unrelated too, so a Sinhala translation is unreadable to a Tamil speaker who does not know Sinhala.
Yes. Sinhala is the language's own name and Sinhalese is the older English name; both refer to the same language, and this translator covers both searches.
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