Similarities Between Hindi, Sinhala, and Dhivehi

How similar are Hindi, Sinhala (Sinhalese), and Maldivian (Divehi)? All three languages belong to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, in the larger Indo-European language family.
In this video Devina (Hindi speaker from India), Sanuda (Sinhalese speaker from Sri Lanka), and Yanish (Divehi speaker from the Maldives) challenge each other with with several short sentences in their respective languages.
Contact me on Instagram if you'd like to participate in a future video: / bahadoralast
Be sure to check out the Instagram page that we mentioned to learn more about the people of the Maldives: / humansofthemaldives
Hindi (हिन्दी) is a standardized register of the Hindustani language. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the official languages of India, Hindi is the fourth most-spoken first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English.
Sinhala / Sinhalese (සිංහල) is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka. The Sinhala script is a Brahmic script closely related to the Grantha script of South India. Sinhala has had a significant role in the development of Theravada Buddhist literature.
Maldivian / Dhivehi or Divehi (ދިވެހި) is primarily spoke in the Maldives where it has official status, and also by a significant number of people on the Minicoy Island, Lakshadweep, India. The language is written in the Thaana script and has had a lot of influence from different languages such as Arabic, Tamil, Persian, Portuguese, Hindi, French, and English. The Thaana script is relatively new and fairly unique with its Arabic and Indic originating letters combined together.

[@BahadorAlast]

I just want to say thank you for your understanding and patience as I have not been very active on KZbin over the past 4 months due to what is going on in Iran. Working full-time, and spending most of my time after work with my kids, means I am left with very little spare time for KZbin, and these days, almost all of my free time is dedicated to supporting the brave women and men inside Iran, the country of my birth, in this historic battle. This will take time and although I'm not in Iran I consider it my duty to support this battle in every possible way that I can. As most of you know, I keep my political views away from my KZbin channel because I don’t think it will have much of an impact here since KZbin is not an ideal platform to spread awareness, but I have dedicated my social media accounts to it, in addition to being very active at different events. If any of you are interested, you can follow me on Instagram for more updates on Iran and see how I've been involved: instagram.com/bahadoralast And if not, I just appreciate and thank you for your patience as my activities on KZbin are reduced during this period! I hope you enjoy the video!

[@santosh-un2bj]

Sir you are a hero. It is not a wonder that you have rightfully been named BAHADOR (BAHADUR)

[@omarqasirov8754]

Thank you for your work. I find your showing our connections through language to be extremely valuable for uniting people across cultures and borders. Keep up the great work!

[@jashandeeosingh4120]

Please .. Do Indo aryan languages . Like .. Hindi , punjabi , bengali , gujrati..

[@Itihg678]

Take care Bahador.

[@collectivelove2275]

Very proud of you ✊

[@Itdesidiaries]

im Srilanka i completed my higher studies in hindi and higher diploma in hindi language. While learning Hindi, I saw many Hindi words that are very similar to Sinhala. Ex: ආදරනීය (आदरणीय) Sinhala and Hindi are brothers and sisters if Sanskrit is mother

[@AS-jo8qh]

How did you complete higher studies in Hindi medium? Are you an expatriate in India?

[@vikassalve422]

No brother as of iam Marathi Buddhist from state Maharashtra India India ancient language is pali many languages come from pali

[@sinhaladubbing-2438]

දෙමළු ට්‍රිගර් වෙයි බලාන😹

[@geschmackj209]

Bahasa Indonesia due to Sanskrit and Arabic influences: Raja: king Neraka: hell Bayu: wind/air Graha: house Harga: price/value Sunyi: silent/emptiness Musim: season

[@YourCreepyUncle.]

Even the word 'bahasa' itself.

[@abhijithcheneri7827]

You can't really count these words in bahasa ... Almost every second word is of Sanskrit origin

[@thirimamunidineka7254]

Brother I'm from Sri Lanka, this is very interesting. I request to you do Sinhala with Bengali and Sanskrit please. ❤

[@ruwanfonseka]

@BahadorAlast @thirimamunidineka7254 Sinhala with Bengali and Sanskrit being compared will be interesting. Found this video which Sinhala speakers may understand many words in this video which is mentioned as Sanskrit kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWS4o3Vjp7aUedE

[@fai3379]

​@@ruwanfonseka 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@vanisridhar5509]

dont drag our language sanskrit here. do it with your pali.

[@thirimamunidineka7254]

@@vanisridhar5509 we are all born as humans, we are all connected. 🫰

[@davidr7819]

Went to Sri Lanka with Bengali friend, he quickly picked up many Sinhala phrases

[@mahikantha]

As a native sinhala speaker i can understand more hindi than devehi

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Cause divehi has nearly more arab and Persian words due to islam

[@tz3925]

@@ShubhamMishrabro spoken hindi has a lot of persian and arabic too. Think namak, garam, agar, jagah, tarah, wajah, lekin, baad, bas, zyada, zaroori, farq, jaldi, sahi,ghalat,chehra, taraf, taa ki, balki, halanki, kaafi. etc

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@tz3925 i know

[@ShrikanthShankarasubramanian]

​@@tz3925 There are Sanskrit or Prakrit equivalents to allmost all these words in Hindi which can be used. Hindi can be a functioning language even without words borrowed from Arabic or Persian via Urdu but the same cannot be said for Dhivehi nor do i think that Dhivehi speakers would want to remove these influences from their language.

[@tz3925]

@@ShrikanthShankarasubramanian technically true but hindi without all those words is like malayalam without sanskrit. Sounds clunky and artificial and has never been used historically.

[@faizullah6671]

This was very good 👏🏼All 3 participants were superb!! I would kindly request Sinhala with Bengali

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

🇱🇰🧡🇧🇩

[@indunilmapa1405]

😍😍😍

[@freecommentor]

Sinhala with Marathi and Bengali.

[@indunilmapa1405]

@@freecommentor අනිවාර්යයෙන්

[@BogalaSawundiris]

Sinhala with Odisha is going to be CRAZY

[@gilbert0que]

It's nice to finally hear Dhivehi!! Thank you for these videos as usual Bahador!! I also understand what you've been doing, and I believe many of your fans do too!! :) :) :) :)

[@santosh-un2bj]

Remarkable work sir! You have once again provided us with an enjoyable experience and great information 👍🏾🙏🏽

[@collectivelove2275]

This was a very good video and a great way to bring together India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka

[@MissSassy]

Sinhala is more close to Indian language "Marathi" ... As a Marathi speaker I can easily understood Sinhala

[@backonrun626]

LoL it's because Prakrit, Marathi is from Maharashtri Prakrit which has a lot of Dravidian sound, one the other hand Sinhali is smooth like Magadhi Prakrit..

[@1tan_freed0m]

A friend of mine from Orissa told me Sinhala felt similar & Also one Bengali said it felt similar too

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

As a native English speaker, I had no problems understanding the subtitles

[@amir2510]

Don't speak anything . Even I'm also Marathi speaker . But not understand sinhala . It's so close to odia language .

[@fai3379]

​@@amir2510 we also don,t understand marati but we understand some words in hindi because both have root of sankrit.

[@levaltshuler1315]

What's amazing is I learn so much through these videos about people and places that I knew nothing about. This was very enlightening and eye opening!

[@nadeeshaweerasinghe2485]

I've waited for months...Finally got it... (Sinhalese and Hindi or Sinhalese and Sanskrit.. ) I saw in your videos that even Lithuanian language also have similar words with Sinhalese because of Sanskrit. That's good to know. Love this kind of videos and good luck you and other participants!

[@Syiepherze]

10:42 There is a Sri Lankan colloquialism that sounds very much like "shauq", ෂෝක් (shōk), which has a generally positive connotation. I can't help but think the two are cognates, with ෂෝක් possibly being introduced by the Sri Lankan Malay community (in Malay and Indonesian there exists the word syok/shiok, meaning "pleasurable") Just my theory though, I've probably been gaslit lmao

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

That Sinhala word has nothing to do with Austronesian Malay!

[@infinite5795]

That Shauk is from Arabic, Malay is also an Arabised Creole of Native Austronesian base and Arabic,Persian,Sanskrit, Tamil etc.

[@johnbuterbaugh]

Indonesian "syok" from Arabic شَوْقٌ‎ (šawqun)

[@Christian_Paul_nz]

@@johnbuterbaugh Arabic and Syriac loan words are not uncommon in the region(s) in which the languages of Sinhala, Bahasa Melayu and Divehi are spoken and written. The Arabic شوق (I have omitted the diacritical marks, in keeping with secular usage) isn't actually pronounced "shawqun" (unless you are a mullah) in everyday usage. It is just "shawq". In Arabic, the word is more accurately translated as "longing" or "interest". The Divehi equivalent of the word is "ޝައުގު" (shaugu).

[@sanudapilapitiya6223]

Interesting 😗😚

[@johnandrewmunroe]

This is so amazing. Collegial, educational, and above all, fun! Thank you all for making this happen.

[@domari9459]

Great video. Thank you for facilitating this video. It is amazing to find out how close these three separate languages are. The similarities between Sinhala and Divehi is remarkable. It is almost like Maldives culture, the language were the same as Sinhala culture at one stage in history before it took a different path under influences from other cultures and languages. Perhaps a good number of Maldives islands were colonized by Sinhala sea travelers long time ago, but couldn't have been more than few hundred years though. It is even possible lost Sri Lankan fishermen from southern and western coastal region started colonizing Maldives islands before the Arab culture reached Maldives. i found it funny our Sri Lankan fellow couldn't quickly work out last Divehi sentence where I worked it out immediately with my Sri Lankan background. 😀 Thank you.

[@user-zh7yr1up8g]

I didn't know about Dhivehi language much. Thank you for the knowledge.

[@santosh-un2bj]

It is a very lovely language

[@user-zh7yr1up8g]

@@Id8570 Welcome!

[@malithaw]

Never thought I would see Sinhala let alone Dhivehi featured in this channel so this was a nice surprise. I liked the maldivian guys energy and also it's pretty nice that you got Devina as someone who's an academic expert in linguistics. Anyway, if you ever going to do Sinhala again, I think you should compare it with Tamil (& other dravidian languages) ,bengali and even with Portuguese as Sinhala has a lot of Portuguese loan words. Great work as always Bahadur!

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

We should remove those ugly Portuguese loan words and surnames. We have our native Sinhala words instead of those loan words

[@CN-vv6wm]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q You can try but no offense, there's too many words.....even the word, "tiene" or "have" is Portuguese.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@CN-vv6wm You should learn Sinhala language before replying to me. There are only few words. Not "too many". "Tiyenavaa" or "tiyena" are Sinhala Prakrit origin words. Not Portuguese! Are you a Sinhalese? If you are a Sinhalese, you should be ashamed of yourself.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@CN-vv6wm You are not even a Sinhalese. So, do not spread fake information about Sinhala language.

[@CN-vv6wm]

I am sorry for pointing it out. But honestly just embrace the cultural diversity that is the Sinhala language instead of being so defensive.

[@nyambaatarbatbayar9333]

Hello Bahador! I really enjoy your "Similarities between ..." videos. It is really interesting for me to find out some languages are quite similar to my language. Please make a video with Mongolian. I will be more than happy to participate or find someone to participate :) It will be fun I guess :))

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you so much! I'd love to! Could you contact me on Instagram?

[@laurentsalomonoriginals3438]

The languages are similar, but the scripts are so different! All three so beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

[@shilpaapurva581]

Found it immensely interesting n came to know about Maldives n there beautifully intresting culture... great 👍

[@Notsurprising]

Waited for this for such a long time!!

[@Xangeet]

Divehi bas is also spoken in parts of Lakshadweep Islands in India. Don't know how many Indians actually know about it.

[@hanajd4297]

Yes ur right

[@nirajkumarsingh4718]

Minicoy

[@annammakurian1614]

We Malayalam speakers also understand Dhivedi..... In Lakshadweep islands, one of island called Minicoy .... They speak Malayalam mixed with Dhivedi.....❤❤❤❤❤

[@StoryoftheMaldives]

They don't speak Malayalam mixed with Dhivehi. They speak in an older form of Dhivehi.

[@ahmedfalah9647]

They speak Mahal language which is also Dhivehi dialect.

[@HussainFazaal]

They are ethnically Dhivehi (Maldivian) and used to be under the dominion of the Maldivian Kingdom sometime before in the past. Now, since they are Indian nationals under the Lakshadweep administration, many of them must also be fluent in Malayalam as a second language.

[@muhammadsamirkhan1987]

Very good initiative and enjoyable

[@WorldPeace-AdamNeira]

Very interesting.

[@nimla]

Three beautiful scripts in this one 😍

[@sreejithmanu]

Lovely session..

[@Jnw_nyy]

what makes dhivehi hard for sinhalese and hindi is our influence by arabic, french, Portuguese etc.

[@VVVedic]

The name of Singapore is also a Sanskrit name - (Singh = Lion, Pore/Pur = City - City of lion).

[@righttime6186]

Not pore or pur but it is Oor and Oor means City in Tamil like malaiyaooor and bengalore or mysore

[@sohamshinde7978]

@@righttime6186 pur came from sanskrit pura

[@righttime6186]

@@sohamshinde7978 it is not pur but it is Oor

[@sohamshinde7978]

@@righttime6186 😂😂 From Proto-Hellenic *ptólis, from Proto-Indo-European *tpólHis, from *tpelH-. The early form πτόλις (ptólis) shows metathesis tp > pt because Ancient Greek stop clusters always end in a coronal. Cognate with Sanskrit पुर (pura, “city”) and Lithuanian pilis (“stronghold”). Irregular accent on genitive πόλεως (póleōs) is due to a quantitative metathesis from older πόληος (pólēos); This clearly shows that it is a indo european word and dravidians took it from sanskrit

[@tz3925]

@@righttime6186 lol then why is there a p letter?

[@AjitJoshi686]

Dhivehi is also spoken in Minicoy island of India.

[@theanti-imperialist1656]

Why is that? What is the root cause?

[@AjitJoshi686]

@@theanti-imperialist1656 Minicoy is 125km away from Maldives. 564 km from capital Mahe.

[@theanti-imperialist1656]

@@AjitJoshi686 Is Jainism still practiced there? Because I believe Indians must convert back to Jainism, the religion of their ancestors.

[@38-jishjilson89]

@@theanti-imperialist1656 Maliku (Minicoy) was annexed by the Kerala based Arakkal Sultanate and as a result was not part of the Kingdom of Maldives at the time of it's independence. Hence, it's a part of India, being one of the islands in the largely Malayalam speaking union territory of the Lakshadweep islands.

[@theanti-imperialist1656]

@@38-jishjilson89 Are you practicing Jainism?

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

The Sinhala guy in this video is a normal Sinhala guy. So, he does not have a proper knowledge about Sinhala language deeply. He should use more Sanskrit words in the sentences than Prakrit words. Then, Hindi speaker will understand more.

[@sayanchakraborty1]

How is shouk a hindi word madam? Very strange. Shouk is not used in any 2000 languages if india but in urdu

[@domari9459]

I think the Maldives fellow won't have any issue getting around in areas of Sri Lanka where people speak Sinhala in most areas. He can most certainly understand majority of Sinhala and speak a great deal of Sinhala without having to learn it because of Divehi language and SInhala similarities.

[@syntaxero]

Maldivian whos been in SL for 2 years yes just need to get that one word to understand what they are saying

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

Yes, "Yadi" means "if" in Sinhala.

[@MigamuveKollek]

Good content. Please compare Sinhala to Sanskrit. Furthermore you could compare some loanwords to the original - in case of Sinhala -> Portuguese and Dutch

[@justanothermortal1373]

You should do Sinhala with Portugese. There are a lot of words that we have adapted and modified from when we were a colony.

[@arjunraj823]

Tell me some words. Let me check if its same in Malayalam too.

[@ketikteks]

I m native Hindi speaker but its really hard for me to understand sinhala n Maldives language , hardly getting one or two words only btw nice video

[@sarangnandedkar6889]

@Bahador, I am told Marathi, Sinhalese and Dhivehi branched out from Maharashtri Prakrut many centuries ago. It would be interesting to see a comparison of Marathi, Sinhalese and Dhivehi. Although it's surprising to see these two latter languages are from indo Aryan group inspite of being in the south

[@vanisridhar5509]

No Sinhala came from Pali(buddhist language)

[@malithaw]

That is not belived to be the case. Both Sinhala and Dhivehi are classified separately under their own branch knows as "Insular Indic". I genuinely see no similarity between Marathi and Sinhala and it feels alien to me.

[@janithglaksan5235]

Nope...sinhala language mother languages are Maghadi(pali) and Sanskrit 😊😊😊😊😊

[@vanisridhar5509]

@@janithglaksan5235 yes, king ashoka spread Pali in srilanka.

[@annammakurian1614]

​@@vanisridhar5509We Malayalam speakers also understand Hindi, Sinhala and Dhivedi.....

[@Arjunkumar99999]

I wish to see just Kannada and Telugu similarities in a video. If possible, include script similarities too.

[@mypolyglotjourney2023]

This was really valuable for me! I'm going to start learning Dhivehi today and my aim is to be able to become fluent in 2 months with the little resources I could find. I'll document all my language journey on my youtube channel. Any help from the fellow Maldivians and Dhivehi speakers is so much appreciated!

[@DhuhaShareef]

Hey! I am a Maldivian, I am here to help you out in any way I can!

[@89prabash]

Long waited video about Sinhala.

[@latoniaeilum1982]

This is great learning language from India!

[@triptee2411]

Great video 👍❤️

[@homeschoolindianmom]

Being firm about not speaking English at home helps maintain native language. Hope we retain our language too.

[@flaviosouza4449]

Very cool!

[@poohthegreatslayer]

I always thought Sinhala was Dravidian language, just came to know it's Indo Aryan language. Mindblown. So, Sri Lanka also have both Indo Aryan language and Dravidian language just like India (India have multiple languages in both of the family).

[@user-ib2dq7ev5n]

Even though sinhalese is an indo aryan the script,accent and some loanwords have made it looks deeply dravidian.. but still not dravidian.. cuz any kind of dravidian speakers can't nderstand sinhala at all.. onky few words like amma,seeni.. but those are too only found in colloquial sinhala.. formal sinhala is way different..

[@arjunraj823]

​@@user-ib2dq7ev5nformal sinhala and colloquial sinhala is understandable for Malayalam speakers.

[@user-ib2dq7ev5n]

@@arjunraj823 sanskrit influence probably..

[@khazna1557]

ما شاء الله من المالديف مسلم ما شاء الله بارك الله فيك يا أخي.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

Nartana, Nrtya mean Dance in Sinhala. Giita means songs. Gaayana means singing. Gaayaka means singer ( Purusha Linga ) Gaayikaa means singer. ( Strii linga word. )

[@DipanjanPaul]

Almost same as Bengali- nritya, geet, gaaiche, gaayak, gaayika

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@DipanjanPaul Bengali is a beautiful language. 👌

[@kc4276]

Same meanings in academic or formal Hindi. In colloquial/street Hindi some words have changed.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@kc4276 Nice to know. 🙂 It means that Academic Hindi and Simhala are very similar...

[@shreyaskumarrath721]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q Sinhalese people are related to Odias, Bengalis and Tamils, Telugus by blood. Kalinga and Chola Empire influenced sri lanka for years.

[@ruwanjayalath1182]

it will be more interesting if you are able to give English sentences and ask them to convert them to their native language. Then pronounce it

[@homeschoolindianmom]

As an Urdu speaker, I could hardly understand Singhalese and Divee, but I could understand shunya from Singhalese and the last sentence from Divee was easy to understand quite a bit.

[@fai3379]

Shunya is a sanskrit word.prkrit and sankrit are mother languages of sinhala language but Very ancient it is called hela, Now it developed with dravidian languages too.

[@homeschoolindianmom]

@@fai3379 I understood shunya because I understand Hindi.

[@slpromo1760]

@@fai3379 Sinhalese is called "Hela Basa".

[@fai3379]

@@slpromo1760 yes but hela is sinhala without pali and sanskrit

[@ketikteks]

​@@homeschoolindianmomsame here I m also a native hindi/urdu speaker

[@kingofthemultiverse4148]

Finally, Bahadur does a video with Sinhala language.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

"Vaayu dhaaraa" are beautiful Sinhala words. We can also say "Vaata", "Pavana", etc instead of "Vaayu".

[@alokpatnaik692]

Same in other Indian languages

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@alokpatnaik692 Good!🙂

[@superboy3633]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q yaa we also say vata pavana and vaayu dhaara means flow of wind.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@superboy3633 👍Nice.

[@Anonymous-pj1xk]

As a Hindi speaker and Sanskrit knower. Sinhala is totally foreign to me , it has some Sanskrit and Pali words but are totally distorted , can not understand. Sinhala is just a mix of Local Shri Lankan, modified and distorted Ancient Elu Prakrit, lot of Tamil(Dravidian) , with few distorted Sanskrit words, and South-east Asian languages, Dutch, Portuguese, French words.

[@paulkuruvita7447]

At the time the British took over Ceylon (Anglicized Shri Lanka) Maldives was considered islets of Ceylon, but influenced by Arab merchants.

[@luciahelenawfreitas1469]

I WOULD LIKE TO SUGEST A VÍDEO ABOUT SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SANSKRIT AND PORTUGUESE. I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL, IT IS VERY INTERSTING, CONGRATULATIONS FROM BRAZIL.

[@hassanalast6670]

Good to know about the Indo Iranian languages

[@faizullah6671]

They are Indo Iranian but also all 3 are Indo-Aryan

[@superboy3633]

@@faizullah6671 No they are called Indo Aryan languages.

[@kingofthemultiverse4148]

Hey! are you tje brother of Bahadur Alast?

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

SHIVA BLESS THE SPEAKERS

[@isuruaravinda9651]

Lots of Maldivian students come to Sri Lanka for studies, because they can easily understand sinhala language. As my understand lot of Maldivian words are similar to old sinhala words. If you can arrange a video Sinhala and Odia, that will really interesting video.

[@isuruaravinda9651]

@@sreekrishnan3996 Are you from Odisha?

[@sujoypal3837]

Sinhalese is closer to Bengali, not Hindi. Sinhalese also have genetical and linguistic similarities with Bengalis.

[@ourmotherlandbharat]

Sinhalase ancestor are from Odisha West Bengal region according to Mahavamsa history

[@abhijithcheneri7827]

Sinhala with odia , Bengali and Marathi would be interesting

[@santusanturohit4832]

Cause Sinhala is mix of two Prakrits. Magadhi Prakrit and Maharashtri Prakrit..

[@Anonymous-pj1xk]

Sinhala is just a mix of modified, distorted Ancient Elu Prakrit, Tamil(Dravidian) , with few distorted Sanskrit words, and influence of South-east Asian languages and words. Whereas , Shuddh Marathi is closest language to the Sanskrit than any other North Indian languages including Hindi. Marathi is very much close to Hindi. Sinhala and Dhivehi sound more Dravidian like Tamil. For North Indian languages speakers including Marathi speakers Sinhala is just similar to Tamil or Chinese. Somebody put Sinhala unofficially with same linguistic tree as Marathi which is circulating all over, actually it is totally wrong, reason may be being Marathi and Konkani are Southern most Indo-Aryan languages. However Marathi at Karnataka borders have Mix Marath i-Kannada accents and few Kannada words. Sinhala and Dhivehi from Elu Prakrit My mother tongue is Hindi and second language is Marathi. I studied Marathi at literature level. Shuddh Marathi is closest language to the Sanskrit than any other North Indian languages including Hindi. Marathi is very much close to Hindi, has nothing to with Sinhala or Dhivehi. Dhivehi is Sinhala plus Arabic and local Maldivians.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@ anonymous Shuddha Marathi did not come from Sanskrit. No language came from Sanskrit. Marathi originated from Vedic Sanskrit through Prakrits. Who said Shuddha Marathi has maximum Sanskrit words and it is closest to Sanskrit? Even Marathi has Schwa deletion but Simhala does not have it. Marathi also has a lot of foreign words. One of my lecturer was a Maharashtri Prakrit scholar and he said present day Marathi is very different from Maharashtri Prakrit. It changed a lot. I also have a proper knowledge about Prakrits. I even studied Gathasaptashati deeply. Shuddha Simhala has more Sanskrit words and it is closest to Sanskrit. Without having proper knowledge about other Indo-Aryan languages like Simhala, do not spread fake information everywhere. Do not be a joke. Do not copy and paste your same comment everywhere. I am a "graduated" Sanskrit speaker. Hindi is foreign to every Sanskrit speaker but not Simhala. "It has some Sanskrit and Pali words"??? "Some"? It is clear that you have a poor knowledge about Simhala. At least 90% of Simhala words are Sanskrit and Sanskrit derived words. Check Simhala Shabdakoshas. Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and other languages of Indian Subcontinent have thousands of South East Asian words, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Arabic, Persian, etc words. Even Sanskrit has Dravidian origin words. New language Hindi got thousands of words from other languages. I have a Hindi-Urdu-Simhala dictionary too. A lot of Portuguese, Dutch, French, Arabic, Persian, Dravidian, Turkish, etc words are in Hindi compared to Simhala. Even Malayalam has more foreign words like Portuguese words, etc than Simhala. I can understand your poor knowledge about Simhala and other languages. Pity on you. Do not spread fake information about Simhala. Do not hate. Jealousy is not good. Even the truth is bitter, we should accept. Dhivehi is very different from Simhala. We cannot understand it. Even Tamil is understandable but not Dhivehi.

[@KavithGamage-hk4ee]

​@@Anonymous-pj1xk Sinhala is very different from South Indian languages. As a Sinhala speaker I can say that. Sinhala may have some Tamil words but it is very different from Tamil. I find it laughable that people like you say that Sinhala and Tamil languages ​​are somewhat similar. The pronunciation of Sinhala and Tamil languages ​​is also very different. As a Sinhala speaker, Tamil seems like an alien language to me. I am not saying this out of any racist feeling because I have to tell the truth.

[@Anonymous-pj1xk]

@@KavithGamage-hk4ee ​ @KavithGamage-hk4ee I also find it laughable that people like you do not read comments properly and reply like this. You have not read any of my comments. I never said Sinhala is somewhat like Tamil language. What I said was Sinhala has lot of Tamil words, since Sinhalese and Srilankan Tamils have been living together for 1000s of years. I understand Sanskrit, Prakrit/Paali. I am not a Racial but as a North-West Indian I feel Sinhala language is a Creole language, and a combination of Ancient Eastern Indian Prakrit and more of ancient Local Sri Lankan Aboriginal Veddah and few more indigenous languages of that time(probably Rakshasa,Naaga, Yaksha) Plus lot of Tamil Loan words Plus some Foreign Loan words. For our ears the pronunciation or accent of Sinhala sounds like Malayalam a another Dravidian language similar to Tamil, again I am not saying Sinhala is similar to Malayalam.

[@Hyperion-5744]

I have a community post with some hindi sentences, but i don't know if they actually mean anything since it's from a game.

[@cecilyd.8604]

hindi and singhalese hv similarities in languages wise..good to know

[@worldbydvg4307]

Nice video. Malli also means Flower in Dravidian languages and It also has same meaning in Dhivehi and Sinhalese. Is Malli a Dravidian language adopted into Sinhalese/Dhivehi or it is an Indo Aryan language adopted into Dravidian language?

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

"Malli" is a pure Sanskrit word. And "Malli" does not mean "flower" in Sinhala language. Flower means mala, pushpa or kusuma in Sinhala. Malli or mallikaa mean Jasmine flower.

[@worldbydvg4307]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q ohh thanks. I don't speak any dravidian language so misunderstood malli for Flower. I have seen usage of Malli in Kannada and Telugu songs so thought Malli means flower. If malli has sanskrit origin then inspite of that malli is not used in Indo Aryan languages or may be I'm not aware of that. Ofcourse Pushpa means flower in Sanskrit.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@worldbydvg4307 Hmm. 👍

[@infinite5795]

@@worldbydvg4307 Malli is a Sanskrit word from a Dravidian origin. Original Sanskrit words are Phula or Pushpa.

[@mihisurumihisuru9911]

@@infinite5795 nope😫

[@paulkuruvita7447]

Sinhala is technically called මිශ්‍ර සිංහල (mishra Sinhala) or mixed up Sinhala meaning Sanskrit + pure Sinhala. Several words used in this discussion are actually Sanskrit coming through as Sinhala. (Check online Sanskrit dictionary )

[@jinnie958]

Interesting video

[@user-kb3gz5pc4l]

The Origin of Sinhala language is from the Odia speaking region, as per the "Mahavamsa" and "Dweepavamsa". Sinhala and Dhivehi speaking regions always had a close cultural and linguistic tie with the Odia and Bengali speaking regions as late as the 13th century CE. So the "Mainland Indo Aryan" language prioritised here should have been Odia or to some extent Bengali and not "Hindi". I mean obviously whenever foreigners talk or think anything about Indian languages they look up to Hindi but Hindi is a relatively new standardized language in India. And its primary region of influence was and always has been the North-Central part of the Subcontinent from the South of Punjab region and Himalayas till the Narmada river Valley.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

Kaama means love in Sinhala. Prema, aadara, anuraaga, sneha are other similar words.

[@indunilmapa1405]

කාමය කියන්නෙ ආශාව නේද.ආදරයට සමාන කරන්න පුලුවන්ද

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@indunilmapa1405 "කාම" යන වචනයට අර්ථ විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක් තිබෙනවා. එබැවින් එය "ආදර" යන වචනයට සමාන පදයක්.

[@MissSassy]

Same in many Indian languages.... Prem, Aadar, Anuraag, Sneh 😄

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@MissSassy Nice. 😅

[@kc4276]

Kaama also means lust or pleasure in academic Hindi (because that is the original meaning in Sanskrit), but in colloquial Hindi it means work or action (more in line with the original meaning of the word karma).

[@AbdulAli-ku9he]

Sinhala, and Maldivian gentleman look alike.

[@AhmedImthiyaz-fn6tj]

im from maldives thank you so much

[@fai3379]

Very good programme🤗🤗🤗

[@chandana11]

I've had plenty of Maldivian and Indian friends, I feel Dhivehi has more Sinhala words than Hindi. That's just what I felt.

[@cavidqorxmazoglu9534]

Marhaba you didn't make Urdu and Hindi because they're the same language or for another reason?

[@sujitsingh2138]

I couldn't figure out most of the dewihi but Singhala i could understand better, but the way Maldivian friend has explained then only i could understand

[@manurvabhah]

Can you please do a video about Odia with Sinhala. The pronounciations are also very similar.

[@asithakarunaratne5444]

Odia is probably the closet language to Sinhala. Most Sinhalese were originally from Oria according to the history.

[@aquarius3577]

​​@@asithakarunaratne5444 research says otherwise

[@stealthworx4371]

@@aquarius3577 Nope most recent studies by Dr Saha Papiha had 72% Bengali/odiya, 12% Gujarati and 16% dravidian ancestry. These ratios obviously changes with caste.

[@aquarius3577]

@@stealthworx4371 nope done in 1996

[@stealthworx4371]

@@aquarius3577 Yes that is the most uptodate thorough genomic study done on Sinhalese ancestry. There hasn't been another wide scale effort made since other than a few minor tests here and there which are questionable at best. Until another thorough test is done the 1996 Dr Saha report is the best that exists as of this moment.

[@sanithuimad5117]

I‘m Sinhala and we say shauq to 😂 it means something like ,,great“

[@ishaanrohmetra3447]

kaam is a word for desire and lust, karm could be the correct word for that sentence raja yadi sahi karm kre toh narak nahi jaega

[@adam-cs6qb]

In Hindi kaam means work more often than lust or desire

[@Gadavillers-Panoir]

The Maldivian seems to know a bit of Sinhala already, so this is a biased comparison.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

Yes, cold means "Shiitala" or "Shiita" in Sinhala.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

Ghara means house in Sinhala. However, Nivaasa and grha mostly use...

[@AS-jo8qh]

Nivaasa also means house in Sanskrit. Both sanskrit and Sinhalese are Indo Aryan languages so similarities are natural

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@AS-jo8qh 😃. What is the Hindi word for "house"?

[@obama-bin_laden]

​​@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් it's Nivaas and Ghar, they are Paryayvachi or Synonyms, Paryayvachi itself is Sanskrit word you might recognise, Paryay and Vachi

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@obama-bin_laden We also say paryaayapada, paryaayavaachii, paryaayavachana, samaanapada, samaanaarthapada for "synonym" in Simhala.

[@LauraGarcia-tk1zj]

If they had Portuguese influence as there also Spanish?

[@hamzashahid6263]

Raja yadi bhala kaam karay to INDIA nahi jayega! 🤣🤣

[@RkR2001]

Shauk - Urdu parsi word - meaning Hobby

[@superboy3633]

YOU can use 11:00 "Ruchi" Instead of shauk in Hindi.

[@blue_rackham]

This forum should have included Sanskrit as Sinhalese and Dwihehi are ancient languages.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

Budha means mercury in Sinhala. Planet means "graha" in Sinhala.

[@shashanksrivastavasri9641]

Ind hindi too Planets Budh, shukra, prithvi (Earth), mangal, brihaspati, shani, arun, varun

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@shashanksrivastavasri9641 Nice.😯😯 In Simhala🦁, we do not say "'budh", "mangal", "arun", "varun". We say "budha", "mangala" , "aruna", "varuna". I have some friends and relatives. Mangala, Aruna, Varuna, Prthivii are their names. Also, there is a newspaper called "Aruna". In my area, there is a restaurant called "Varuna". In Simhala, පෘ = पृ = pr [Not pri] ( Pri = ප්‍රි = प्रि ) බෘ = बृ = br [ Not bri ] ( Bri = බ්‍රි = ब्रि ) Simhala 🤝 Hindii Hindi is one of the most beautiful language in the world and one of my favourite language.

[@bhashashikkhakendro]

​​@@user-ew7qq6ym8q Aapnar Bangla kemon laage ?? Bangla হিন্দির চেয়ে অনেক বেশি সুন্দর ।।

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@bhashashikkhakendro No. I cannot speak Bangla. Also, I cannot read.

[@bhashashikkhakendro]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q I asked you that do you like the Bengali language ??

[@KeithR2002]

Only issue is sinhala has been ,in its modern form , heavily sanskritized. Which is why its easy to guess words like vāyu and dhārā.

[@Anonymous-pj1xk]

As a Hindi speaker and Sanskrit knower. Sinhala is totally foreign to me , it has some Sanskrit and Pali words but are totally distorted , can not understand. Sinhala is just a mix of modified, distorted Ancient Elu Prakrit, Tamil(Dravidian) , with few distorted Sanskrit words, and influence of South-east Asian languages and words.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

​@@Anonymous-pj1xk Do not be a joke. Do not copy and paste your same comment everywhere. I am a "graduated" Sanskrit speaker. Hindi is foreign to every Sanskrit speaker but not Simhala. "It has some Sanskrit and Pali words"??? "Some"? It is clear that you have a poor knowledge about Simhala. At least 90% of Simhala words are Sanskrit and Sanskrit derived words. Check Simhala Shabdakoshas. Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and other languages of Indian Subcontinent have thousands of South East Asian words, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Arabic, Persian, etc words. Even Sanskrit has Dravidian origin words. New language Hindi got thousands of words from other languages. I have a Hindi-Urdu-Simhala dictionary too. A lot of Portuguese, Dutch, French, Arabic, Persian, Dravidian, Turkish, etc words are in Hindi compared to Simhala. Even Malayalam has more foreign words like Portuguese words, etc than Simhala. I can understand your poor knowledge about Simhala and other languages. Pity on you. Do not spread fake information about Simhala.

[@KeithR2002]

@@Anonymous-pj1xk surprisingly sinhala has a much smaller register of dravidian loans compared to tatsamas and tadbhavas. The northern IA languages seem to be more influenced ny dravidian phonology too

[@KeithR2002]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q hey. You dont need to be aggressive online. We understand you take pride in your knowledge 💯

[@lj.619]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q What are the best resources on the evolution of Sinhala and its linguistics?

[@Anonymous-pj1xk]

@ourmotherlandbharat I am North-West Indian , I have lived in Maharashtra for a while, I know Marathi, I can speak Marathi, I can understand Odia Bengali. Since you are Marathi speaker can you please provide a one matching Marathi sample with Sinhala? I would appreciate. Also If you know Odia-Bengali you can give the sentence of each which is similar to Sinhala. I have gone through Sinhala language thoroughly and Compared with Marathi and also with Odia-Bengali. I found no Similarity with above languages. Even though 500 Ancient Odia- Bengali people who were Magadhi Prakrit speaking , migrated to SriLanka before 2000 years ago, those 500 Odia people mixed with millions of Veddah Aadivaasis of Sri Lanka who were speaking Veddah Dravidian like language of unknown Origin, later this mix population mixed with Sr Lankan Native Local Tamil population and adopted 5000 Tamil Dravidian words. So Sinhala is Creole(Mix) language Consist of Corrupt Original Magadhi Prakrit minor part + Veddah language Major part + 5000 Tamil words + some Dutch, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Thai, Malay words. Sinhala language sounds like Malayalam. How do you expect it has similarity with Marathi? if Magadhi Prakrit had origin from Odia-Bengal area, which is the one of the main base of the Sinhala. Marathi is from Maharastri Prakrit which was originated from M.P and Northen Maharastra area.

[@worldbydvg4307]

Such an interesting video. I have a question: What is the reason for Dhivehi people to look like Southern India athough Dhivehi is an Indo Aryan Language? (I know Southern Indian(Dravidians) looks in itself are diverse. Likewise Dhivehi and Indo aryan people are also diverse. But while looking at general populationof Dhivehi people, it seems more related to Southern Indians)

[@nivinpoly2686]

Broo there is nothing called Dravidian. It is used by British to separate us Srilankans/madives people/ South Indian People look similar since we live in hot temperatures which makes our skin Dark to sustain in temperatures If Sinhala is Indo-Aryan then All South Indian languages too Indo Aryan South Indians called Dravida in old times since We live near to Drava( ocean)

[@worldbydvg4307]

@@nivinpoly2686 either you live in illusion or you do not have proper knowledge. Hope you get enlighten soon. Thanks

[@nivinpoly2686]

@@worldbydvg4307 Well I'm really clear about my points! I hope you get enlighten from Dravidian Agenda

[@worldbydvg4307]

@@nivinpoly2686 I'm neither a Dravidian follower nor a south Indian. And I'm glad you have Interests in Languages and Culture. But you need to have more observations.

[@Christian_Paul_nz]

English people look like Germans. Are English people Germans? @worldbydvg4307 are you Modi's colonialist agent?

[@1974priyan]

Please compare Sinhala and Marathi

[@Anonymous-pj1xk]

Shuddh Marathi is derived from Sanskrit derived Maharastri Prakrit but has maximum Sanskrit words than any other Indo-Aryan languages. Shuddh Marathi is closest language to the Sanskrit than any other North Indian languages including Hindi. Shuddh Marathi is very much close to the Shuddh Hindi but more Sanskrit with respect to Grammer and Sanskrit words. Shuddh Marathi has, it's own accent different than Hindi or any North Indian languages or South Indian languages. While Sinhala is just mix of Local Shrilankan Ab-Originals, modified, distorted ancient Elu Prakrit, heavy influence of Tamil(Dravidian) ,few distorted Sanskrit words, and influence of South-East Asians settlers languages, Dutch, Portuguese, French. Sinhala derived from Magadhi Prakrit or Maharastri Prakrit is very doubtful as Sinhala has no similarity with Bengali/ Odia. Marathi not at all.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

​@@Anonymous-pj1xk Shuddha Marathi did not come from Sanskrit. No language came from Sanskrit. Marathi originated from Vedic Sanskrit through Prakrits. Who said Shuddha Marathi has maximum Sanskrit words and it is closest to Sanskrit? Even Marathi has Schwa deletion but Simhala does not have it. Marathi also has a lot of foreign words. One of my lecturer was a Maharashtri Prakrit scholar and he said present day Marathi is very different from Maharashtri Prakrit. It changed a lot. I also have a proper knowledge about Prakrits. I even studied Gathasaptashati deeply. Shuddha Simhala has more Sanskrit words and it is closest to Sanskrit. Without having proper knowledge about other Indo-Aryan languages like Simhala, do not spread fake information everywhere. Do not be a joke. Do not copy and paste your same comment everywhere. I am a "graduated" Sanskrit speaker. Hindi is foreign to every Sanskrit speaker but not Simhala. "It has some Sanskrit and Pali words"??? "Some"? It is clear that you have a poor knowledge about Simhala. At least 90% of Simhala words are Sanskrit and Sanskrit derived words. Check Simhala Shabdakoshas. Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and other languages of Indian Subcontinent have thousands of South East Asian words, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Arabic, Persian, etc words. Even Sanskrit has Dravidian origin words. New language Hindi got thousands of words from other languages. I have a Hindi-Urdu-Simhala dictionary too. A lot of Portuguese, Dutch, French, Arabic, Persian, Dravidian, Turkish, etc words are in Hindi compared to Simhala. Even Malayalam has more foreign words like Portuguese words, etc than Simhala. I can understand your poor knowledge about Simhala and other languages. Pity on you. Do not spread fake information about Simhala. Do not hate. Jealousy is not good. Even the truth is bitter, we should accept.

[@Zerubaba]

The Arabic influences are not loan words but are Eastern Arabic.

[@kartikrajsingh1895]

Hindi-Sinhala common words: Water- Hindi-jal, Sinhala-jala Language- Hindi-bhasha, Sinhala-bhasava Do- Hindi-Karo, Sinhala-Karana Fire- Hindi-agni, Sinhala-gini One- Hindi-ek, Sinhala-eka Name- Hindi-naam, Sinhala-nama People- Hindi-janta, Sinhala-jantava Leader- Hindi-nayak, Sinhala-nayaka State- Hindi-raajya, Sinhala-rajye Mouth- Hindi-mu, Sinhala-mukaya God- Hindi-devta/devi, Sinhala-devi Oil- Hindi-tel, Sinhala-tel Evidence- Hindi-sakshya, Sinhala-sakshi Blue- Hindi-neela, Sinhala-neel Hand- Hindi-haath, Sinhala-ata Army- Hindi-sena, Sinhala-sena War- Hindi-yuddh, Sinhala-yuddhay Patriot-Hindi- deshbhakt, Sinhala-deshprema Love- Hindi-aadar, Sinhala-adaraya

[@Anonymous-pj1xk]

There are some common words, not much.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

​@@Anonymous-pj1xk Jealous?

[@azwraith9973]

Maldives is literally "Mala-dwip" or Garland-Island. As most of these islands are Atolls which are ring or garland shaped islands developed from trans-oceanic volcanoes. Divehi also might come from the same root. "Dwip" or "island" is transformed into "Div". The "hi" at the end is a suffix for "of". Therefore, Divehi would mean "of the island(s)". Therefore Divehi could be used to mean the language, cuisine or culture of the island(s). Another example would be "Awadhi" which imples something "of Awadh/Ayodhya" . This is very often used to denote the language of that region, also called Awadhi. The Indian island group to the north of Maldives, the Lakshadweep also have similar etymology. Laksha/lakkha means a lakh(100,000) or would be used to imply "countless". If I am not mistaken, Divehi is also spoken in the Lakshadweep. There is a lot of contribution of the people from these ancient archipelagoes to Indian time-calculation, distance-calculation and mathematics. Mainly necessitated due to Maritime Trade and reliance on the Monsoon winds. Great video.

[@BogalaSawundiris]

Sinhala with Odisha is going to be CRAZY

[@user-ih5jz7ld3d]

Ocean deeper than the sea

[@rvk3844]

Iam a Konkani speaker from Karwar Karnataka (India) There is lot of similarities to Konkani also Goa state language since all these languages developed from Maharashtrian Prakrit of Indo Aryan language

[@jeewssam8418]

Sinhalese is a language that has its roots in Pali and Sanskrit, but later influences from Tamil, Kannda, telegu, Marati also a lot of added words from Portuguese and Dutch too. This is why in a country like India with a billion population no one speaks Sinhalese. Its a unique language with its Indian and European influences

[@Variouscartoontopic]

With its Indian and European influence? Do you ever know that your language Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language descendant of Sanskrit? And btw your comment make no sense at all, just you are showing your hatred towards India without any reason. My language is more Ancient and unique than your Sinhalese lol.

[@Anonymous-pj1xk]

Sinhala is just a mix of modified, distorted Ancient Elu Prakrit, Tamil(Dravidian) , with few distorted Sanskrit words, and influence of South-east Asian languages and words. Whereas , Shuddh Marathi is closest language to the Sanskrit than any other North Indian languages including Hindi. Marathi is very much close to Hindi. Sinhala and Dhivehi sound more Dravidian like Tamil. For North Indian languages speakers including Marathi speakers Sinhala is just similar to Tamil or Chinese. Somebody put Sinhala unofficially with same linguistic tree as Marathi which is circulating all over, actually it is totally wrong, reason may be being Marathi and Konkani are Southern most Indo-Aryan languages. However Marathi at Karnataka borders have Mix Marath i-Kannada accents and few Kannada words. Sinhala and Dhivehi from Elu Prakrit My mother tongue is Hindi and second language is Marathi. I studied Marathi at literature level. Shuddh Marathi is closest language to the Sanskrit than any other North Indian languages including Hindi. Marathi is very much close to Hindi, has nothing to with Sinhala or

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@Anonymous Shuddha Marathi did not come from Sanskrit. No language came from Sanskrit. Marathi originated from Vedic Sanskrit through Prakrits. Who said Shuddha Marathi has maximum Sanskrit words and it is closest to Sanskrit? Even Marathi has Schwa deletion but Simhala does not have it. Marathi also has a lot of foreign words. One of my lecturer was a Maharashtri Prakrit scholar and he said present day Marathi is very different from Maharashtri Prakrit. It changed a lot. I also have a proper knowledge about Prakrits. I even studied Gathasaptashati deeply. Shuddha Simhala has more Sanskrit words and it is closest to Sanskrit. Without having proper knowledge about other Indo-Aryan languages like Simhala, do not spread fake information everywhere. Do not be a joke. Do not copy and paste your same comment everywhere. I am a "graduated" Sanskrit speaker. Hindi is foreign to every Sanskrit speaker but not Simhala. "It has some Sanskrit and Pali words"??? "Some"? It is clear that you have a poor knowledge about Simhala. At least 90% of Simhala words are Sanskrit and Sanskrit derived words. Check Simhala Shabdakoshas. Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and other languages of Indian Subcontinent have thousands of South East Asian words, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Arabic, Persian, etc words. Even Sanskrit has Dravidian origin words. New language Hindi got thousands of words from other languages. I have a Hindi-Urdu-Simhala dictionary too. A lot of Portuguese, Dutch, French, Arabic, Persian, Dravidian, Turkish, etc words are in Hindi compared to Simhala. Even Malayalam has more foreign words like Portuguese words, etc than Simhala. I can understand your poor knowledge about Simhala and other languages. Pity on you. Do not spread fake information about Simhala. Do not hate. Jealousy is not good. Even the truth is bitter, we should accept.

[@sauravkumarchand9691]

Sinhala Written Script looks very resembling similar to Two Dravidian Languages from South of India-Kannada from Karnataka State and Telugu from Andhra Pradesh State & Telangana State.

[@aravindhrajgowda2446]

Yes it's look like Kannada- Telugu, but it was similar to us, by the characters it is more resemble towards Tamil and malayalam.

[@tamarind1459]

All those languages use Grantha script.

[@malithaw]

I don't think Sinhalese speakers can understand Dhivehi that well since eventhough the two languages are closely related most sinhalese people haven't had contact with dhivehi for a long time. Even though a lot of Maldivians come and stay in Sri Lanka for work or education, most of them speak english or sinhala quite well so it's rare to hear dhivehi. This is probably in constrast to maldivians since they get to ineract with sinhala lot that they can easily understand the similarities between the two languages. Still, it's the closest language to sinhala so I think it's probably way easier for sinhalese to learn dhivehi than any other language.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

For Sinhalese, Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi are easier. And the closest language to Sinhala is Sanskrit. Not Dhivehi. Even Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam which are Dravidian languages have more similarities with Sinhala in many ways.

[@Christian_Paul_nz]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q are you Mr Modi's colonial agent?

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@Christian_Paul_nz Yes. So?

[@Christian_Paul_nz]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q so you have confirmed your colonial agent status.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@Christian_Paul_nz Why did you ask that type of question? "Mr Modi's colonial agent."

[@realbaron5714]

These languages are part of Indo-Aryan family, a sub group of Indo-European languages.

[@codunited6941]

There are similarities in Sinhala and Bahasa Malay too I request a video about that

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

It is because Malay language has influences from Sanskrit.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

I am a native Sinhala speaker. It says that Dhivehi is somewhat close to Sinhala language. However, Tamil language is more intelligible to me. LOL! Dhivehi sounds like an isolated language. No one speaks Dhivehi in Sri Lanka. However, Dhivehi is spoken in Lakshadveepa, a union territory of India.

[@zubairmohammadyusuf942]

You are against Muslim languages because of what reason? What did Muslims ever do to you?

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@zubairmohammadyusuf942 I respect Muslims. I have Muslim friends. Sri Lanka has a long history of Islam. The oldest masjid in Sri Lanka was built by Arabs more than 1 000 years ago. You can still see that masjid. Love Pakistan too. 🇵🇰🧡

[@zubairmohammadyusuf942]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q That is most fantastic to know about inshallah I will visit this masjid one day for namaz and jummah. I love very much Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@zubairmohammadyusuf942 Thanks Pakistani friend. 👍 That mosque is situated in Beruwala town in Sri Lanka. You can search. There are thousands of mosques throughout Sri Lanka and there are millions of Muslims in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India have great history of Islam than any other country outside the Middle East. Pakistan is one my favourite country. 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

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@@zubairmohammadyusuf942 what did we do to Muslims? Please educate us