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Sinhala slang and Sinhalese language

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Sinhala slang and Sinhalese language

Sinhala slang vs. Sinhalese language

Sinhala slang is used by speakers of the Sinhala language in Sri Lanka, as well as many other Sinhala-speaking individuals. Sinhalese, known natively as Sinhala (සිංහල; siṁhala), is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million.

Similarities between Sinhala slang and Sinhalese language

Sinhala slang and Sinhalese language have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Diglossia, Indo-Aryan languages, Slang, Sri Lanka.

Diglossia

In linguistics, diglossia is a situation in which two dialects or languages are used by a single language community.

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Indo-Aryan languages

The Indo-Aryan or Indic languages are the dominant language family of the Indian subcontinent.

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Slang

Slang is language (words, phrases, and usages) of an informal register that members of special groups like teenagers, musicians, or criminals favor (over a standard language) in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Sinhala slang and Sinhalese language Comparison

Sinhala slang has 15 relations, while Sinhalese language has 146. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 2.48% = 4 / (15 + 146).

References

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