Similarities Between Hindi, Sinhala, and Dhivehi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- 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.
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Sir you are a hero. It is not a wonder that you have rightfully been named BAHADOR (BAHADUR)
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!
Please .. Do Indo aryan languages .
Like .. Hindi , punjabi , bengali , gujrati..
Take care Bahador.
Very proud of you ✊
Brother I'm from Sri Lanka, this is very interesting. I request to you do Sinhala with Bengali and Sanskrit please. ❤
@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 th-cam.com/video/_3UrB-rQaCo/w-d-xo.html
@@ruwanfonseka 🥰🥰🥰🥰
dont drag our language sanskrit here. do it with your pali.
@@vanisridhar5509 we are all born as humans, we are all connected. 🫰
Went to Sri Lanka with Bengali friend, he quickly picked up many Sinhala phrases
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
Even the word 'bahasa' itself.
You can't really count these words in bahasa ... Almost every second word is of Sanskrit origin
Well Indonesia has Garuda Airlines. And as every Indian knows Garuda is the mount of Lord Vishnu. Also, Thailand's Bangkok airport is called Suvarnabhumi Airport. Suvarna Bhumi in Hindi/Marathi/Sanskrit translates to Golden Land.
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
How did you complete higher studies in Hindi medium? Are you an expatriate in India?
No brother as of iam Marathi Buddhist from state Maharashtra India India ancient language is pali many languages come from pali
දෙමළු ට්රිගර් වෙයි බලාන😹
No friend, Pali is the mother of the all Indian languages
@@chetannagdeve7522Actually no. Im a Sinhala too. But Vedic Sanskrit is the root of all indo aryan languages . Vedic Sanskrit gave borth to 5 types of prakrits. 1) Shauraseni 2) Gandhari 3) Maharashtri 4) Magadhi (Pali) 5) Elu. Modern indo aryan languages are developed from these prakrits. Eg - Bengali from Magadhi (Pali), Hindi from Shauraseni, Sinhala and Dhovehi from Elu and so on.
As a native sinhala speaker i can understand more hindi than devehi
Cause divehi has nearly more arab and Persian words due to islam
@@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
@@tz3925 i know
@@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.
@@ShrikanthShankarasubramanian technically true but hindi without all those words is like malayalam without sanskrit. Sounds clunky and artificial and has never been used historically.
Sinhala is more close to Indian language "Marathi" ... As a Marathi speaker I can easily understood Sinhala
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..
A friend of mine from Orissa told me Sinhala felt similar & Also one Bengali said it felt similar too
As a native English speaker, I had no problems understanding the subtitles
Don't speak anything .
Even I'm also Marathi speaker .
But not understand sinhala .
It's so close to odia language .
@@amir2510 we also don,t understand marati but we understand some words in hindi because both have root of sankrit.
This was very good 👏🏼All 3 participants were superb!! I would kindly request Sinhala with Bengali
🇱🇰🧡🇧🇩
😍😍😍
Sinhala with Marathi and Bengali.
@@freecommentor අනිවාර්යයෙන්
Sinhala with Odisha is going to be CRAZY
This was a very good video and a great way to bring together India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka
I didn't know about Dhivehi language much. Thank you for the knowledge.
It is a very lovely language
@@Id8570 Welcome!
Remarkable work sir! You have once again provided us with an enjoyable experience and great information 👍🏾🙏🏽
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!! :) :) :) :)
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.
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!
The name of Singapore is also a Sanskrit name - (Singh = Lion, Pore/Pur = City - City of lion).
Not pore or pur but it is Oor and Oor means City in Tamil like malaiyaooor and bengalore or mysore
@@righttime6186 pur came from sanskrit pura
@@sohamshinde7978 it is not pur but it is Oor
@@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
@@righttime6186 lol then why is there a p letter?
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
That Sinhala word has nothing to do with Austronesian Malay!
That Shauk is from Arabic, Malay is also an Arabised Creole of Native Austronesian base and Arabic,Persian,Sanskrit, Tamil etc.
Indonesian "syok" from Arabic شَوْقٌ (šawqun)
@@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).
Interesting 😗😚
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!
We should remove those ugly Portuguese loan words and surnames.
We have our native Sinhala words instead of those loan words
@@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් You can try but no offense, there's too many words.....even the word, "tiene" or "have" is Portuguese.
@@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.
@@CN-vv6wm You are not even a Sinhalese. So, do not spread fake information about Sinhala language.
I am sorry for pointing it out. But honestly just embrace the cultural diversity that is the Sinhala language instead of being so defensive.
The languages are similar, but the scripts are so different! All three so beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Divehi bas is also spoken in parts of Lakshadweep Islands in India. Don't know how many Indians actually know about it.
Yes ur right
Minicoy
You're right. There are several unique languages spoken in India. Some of it very interesting. About 1000 plus languages. Some of them like a Nicobarese languages have less than 100 speakers
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!
This is so amazing. Collegial, educational, and above all, fun! Thank you all for making this happen.
Dhivehi is also spoken in Minicoy island of India.
Why is that? What is the root cause?
@@theanti-imperialist1656 Minicoy is 125km away from Maldives. 564 km from capital Mahe.
@@AjitJoshi686 Is Jainism still practiced there? Because I believe Indians must convert back to Jainism, the religion of their ancestors.
@@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.
@@38-jishjilson89 Are you practicing Jainism?
Yes, "Yadi" means "if" in Sinhala.
We Malayalam speakers also understand Dhivedi..... In Lakshadweep islands, one of island called Minicoy .... They speak Malayalam mixed with Dhivedi.....❤❤❤❤❤
They don't speak Malayalam mixed with Dhivehi. They speak in an older form of Dhivehi.
They speak Mahal language which is also Dhivehi dialect.
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.
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 :))
Thank you so much! I'd love to! Could you contact me on Instagram?
what makes dhivehi hard for sinhalese and hindi is our influence by arabic, french, Portuguese etc.
The Maldivian seems to know a bit of Sinhala already, so this is a biased comparison.
Found it immensely interesting n came to know about Maldives n there beautifully intresting culture... great 👍
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.
Maldivian whos been in SL for 2 years yes just need to get that one word to understand what they are saying
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
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!
Hey! I am a Maldivian, I am here to help you out in any way I can!
Sinhala, and Maldivian gentleman look alike.
I‘m Sinhala and we say shauq to 😂 it means something like ,,great“
"Vaayu dhaaraa" are beautiful Sinhala words. We can also say "Vaata", "Pavana", etc instead of "Vaayu".
Same in other Indian languages
@@alokpatnaik692 Good!🙂
@@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් yaa we also say vata pavana and vaayu dhaara means flow of wind.
@@superboy3633 👍Nice.
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.
Sinhala with odia , Bengali and Marathi would be interesting
Cause Sinhala is mix of two Prakrits. Magadhi Prakrit and Maharashtri Prakrit..
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.
@ 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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@fai3379 I understood shunya because I understand Hindi.
@@fai3379 Sinhalese is called "Hela Basa".
@@slpromo1760 yes but hela is sinhala without pali and sanskrit
@@homeschoolindianmomsame here I m also a native hindi/urdu speaker
Sinhalese is closer to Bengali, not Hindi. Sinhalese also have genetical and linguistic similarities with Bengalis.
Sinhalase ancestor are from Odisha West Bengal region according to Mahavamsa history
Good content. Please compare Sinhala to Sanskrit. Furthermore you could compare some loanwords to the original - in case of Sinhala -> Portuguese and Dutch
How is shouk a hindi word madam? Very strange. Shouk is not used in any 2000 languages if india but in urdu
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.
Marhaba you didn't make Urdu and Hindi because they're the same language or for another reason?
I wish to see just Kannada and Telugu similarities in a video. If possible, include script similarities too.
And Sanskrit also
@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
No Sinhala came from Pali(buddhist language)
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.
Nope...sinhala language mother languages are Maghadi(pali) and Sanskrit 😊😊😊😊😊
@@janithglaksan5235 yes, king ashoka spread Pali in srilanka.
@@vanisridhar5509We Malayalam speakers also understand Hindi, Sinhala and Dhivedi.....
I've had plenty of Maldivian and Indian friends, I feel Dhivehi has more Sinhala words than Hindi. That's just what I felt.
Three beautiful scripts in this one 😍
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.
@sreekrishnan3996 Are you from Odisha?
Being firm about not speaking English at home helps maintain native language. Hope we retain our language too.
Kaama means love in Sinhala.
Prema, aadara, anuraaga, sneha are other similar words.
කාමය කියන්නෙ ආශාව නේද.ආදරයට සමාන කරන්න පුලුවන්ද
@@indunilmapa1405 "කාම" යන වචනයට අර්ථ විශාල ප්රමාණයක් තිබෙනවා. එබැවින් එය "ආදර" යන වචනයට සමාන පදයක්.
Same in many Indian languages.... Prem, Aadar, Anuraag, Sneh 😄
@@MissSassy Nice. 😅
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).
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).
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..
@@user-ib2dq7ev5nformal sinhala and colloquial sinhala is understandable for Malayalam speakers.
@@arjunraj823 sanskrit influence probably..
Good to know about the Indo Iranian languages
They are Indo Iranian but also all 3 are Indo-Aryan
@@faizullah6671 No they are called Indo Aryan languages.
Hey! are you tje brother of Bahadur Alast?
Long waited video about Sinhala.
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
Nartana, Nrtya mean Dance in Sinhala.
Giita means songs.
Gaayana means singing.
Gaayaka means singer ( Purusha Linga )
Gaayikaa means singer. ( Strii linga word. )
Almost same as Bengali- nritya, geet, gaaiche, gaayak, gaayika
@@DipanjanPaul Bengali is a beautiful language. 👌
Same meanings in academic or formal Hindi. In colloquial/street Hindi some words have changed.
@@kc4276 Nice to know. 🙂 It means that Academic Hindi and Simhala are very similar...
@@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් Sinhalese people are related to Odias, Bengalis and Tamils, Telugus by blood. Kalinga and Chola Empire influenced sri lanka for years.
Sanskrit is the oldest.
But among Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Odia, Konkani, Marathi, Gujarati, etc Sinhala is the oldest Indo-Aryan language and it has the highest number of Prakrit inscriptions.
Good joke tho.
@@infinite5795 Good joke? Maybe you do not know about it. Study more...
Sanskrit is the oldest Indo-Aryan language. Don't shame our country infront of the world.
@Sandev Dilmith Malalasekera
First learn English. It seems like your head hurts after seeing my comments and replies.
Everyone knows Sanskrit is the oldest.
Read my comment carefully!
@@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් study more about history and literature.
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
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.
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
@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.
I am a Maldivian. I don't know how I learnt Hindi but I can clearly understand and speak in Hindi. Most Maldivian can understand Hindi.
Sach me Bhai, samajh lete sab Hindi
ما شاء الله من المالديف
مسلم ما شاء الله بارك الله فيك يا أخي.
Waited for this for such a long time!!
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.
Sinhala and Hindi is similar than Maldivian
At the time the British took over Ceylon (Anglicized Shri Lanka) Maldives was considered islets of Ceylon, but influenced by Arab merchants.
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
There are some common words, not much.
@@Anonymous-pj1xk Jealous?
Amazed to see this video. Sinhala is very nearer to marathi language. I can guess little bit, what the sinhala guy saying in this video..
You should do Sinhala with Portugese. There are a lot of words that we have adapted and modified from when we were a colony.
Tell me some words. Let me check if its same in Malayalam too.
Finally, Bahadur does a video with Sinhala language.
There are many Sinhalese words same or similar to odia language. Those are not found in bengali, hindi and sanskrit. Also checked in gujarati or tamil from Google translate.
This forum should have included Sanskrit as Sinhalese and Dwihehi are ancient languages.
Ghara means house in Sinhala. However, Nivaasa and grha mostly use...
Nivaasa also means house in Sanskrit. Both sanskrit and Sinhalese are Indo Aryan languages so similarities are natural
@@AS-jo8qh 😃. What is the Hindi word for "house"?
@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් it's Nivaas and Ghar, they are Paryayvachi or Synonyms, Paryayvachi itself is Sanskrit word you might recognise, Paryay and Vachi
@@obama-bin_laden We also say paryaayapada, paryaayavaachii, paryaayavachana, samaanapada, samaanaarthapada for "synonym" in Simhala.
As a sri lankan musician, I just need to cut the last letter of the sinhala word to make the hindi word. Ex: (sinhala) Aarohana, (Hindi) Aaroha. 😅
Budha means mercury in Sinhala.
Planet means "graha" in Sinhala.
Ind hindi too
Planets
Budh, shukra, prithvi (Earth), mangal, brihaspati, shani, arun, varun
@@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.
@@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් Aapnar Bangla kemon laage ?? Bangla হিন্দির চেয়ে অনেক বেশি সুন্দর ।।
@@bhashashikkhakendro No. I cannot speak Bangla. Also, I cannot read.
@@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් I asked you that do you like the Bengali language ??
There are similarities in Sinhala and Bahasa Malay too
I request a video about that
It is because Malay language has influences from Sanskrit.
I WOULD LIKE TO SUGEST A VÍDEO ABOUT SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SANSKRIT AND PORTUGUESE. I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL, IT IS VERY INTERSTING, CONGRATULATIONS FROM BRAZIL.
This is a very slang street sinhala dialect which is not a good representation of the language. If you want to hear "Shuddha" Sinhala listen to Random Sri Lankan news videos or lectures from Dr Raj Somadeva.
नाचना और गाना उसके शौक हैं।
Dancing and singing are her hobbies.
Nice languge chanel....I like ...🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
Can you please do a video about Odia with Sinhala. The pronounciations are also very similar.
Odia is probably the closet language to Sinhala. Most Sinhalese were originally from Oria according to the history.
@@asithakarunaratne5444 research says otherwise
@@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.
@@stealthworx4371 nope done in 1996
@@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.
Very good initiative and enjoyable
Meaning is. Similar to blossom a flower
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
In Hindi kaam means work more often than lust or desire
"Unusum" is a Sinhala Prakrit type word. Sinhala guy should use "griishma", "ushna" for "Hot".
If this video was between Sinhala and Hindi, you could find thousands or more words in common
@@hamdhahamza9748 Yes...
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.
You are against Muslim languages because of what reason? What did Muslims ever do to you?
@@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. 🇵🇰🧡
@@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් 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 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
@@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. 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
@@zubairmohammadyusuf942 what did we do to Muslims? Please educate us
These languages are part of Indo-Aryan family, a sub group of Indo-European languages.
Pure hindi is very near to sinhala rather than tamil. Sinhala has lots of sanskrit words like samarthan means support, vidyalaya means school same in hindi and sinhala
Good Programe....🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
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
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.
Yes it's look like Kannada- Telugu, but it was similar to us, by the characters it is more resemble towards Tamil and malayalam.
All those languages use Grantha script.
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
YOU can use 11:00 "Ruchi" Instead of shauk in Hindi.
Lovely session..
hindi and singhalese hv similarities in languages wise..good to know
Nice Video
There is no direct connection between Hindi and Sinhala. The connection is through Sanskrit. If the lady spoke in Hindi, it would have been easier to understand if she had spoken Hindi mixed with Sanskrit.
Sinhala language evolved from Prakrit. Due to the influence of Hindu culture, Sanskrit words also came to the Sinhala language relatively later.
The Maldives islands were settled by fishermen from Sri Lanka. The old Sinhala that they spoke evolved as a separate language and formed the language of today's language (the word of the language means "in the island", Sinhala is the ancient name given to Sri Lanka) At the same time, the Sinhala language in Sri Lanka evolved separately and became Sinhala as it is today.
the maldivian guy knows sinhalese fasho
Hindi has Urdu derivatives, not Persian parsi. We sinhalese understand all the pure hindi words but any loan words from Urdu are very different to sinhalese . If this lady speaks pure hindi, then we sinhalese understand everything
I'm wondering if Punjabi and Marathi have anything in common
SHIVA BLESS THE SPEAKERS
The sinhalese script is quite similar to that of the current kannada script.
Because Sinhala came from south indian Brahmi inscription.
Yes, cold means "Shiitala" or "Shiita" in Sinhala.
Let's remove all the Perso-Arabic words from Hindustani and Bengali and let's speak in shudhha Sanskritised Hindi and Bengali.....
Hindi itself is a Persian word
You always get an Indian troll talking nonsense as usual.
Persi and Sanskrit words are related, like Vumi/Jomi. Let's remove Arabic words only from our everyday conversation. And also speak in Suddha to the kids.
@@Abdullah-uv9nk these mukherjis are braindead
I am From Maldives 🇲🇻 😊
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.