Countries
Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6036
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
NA2
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Not Available
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Not Available
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Not available
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Not available
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Vedda
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
-9999
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Not Available
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Sadz
-9999
Where They Speak
Turkey
Not Available
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
NA0.25 %
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million16.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NA2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
abkhaze
singhalais
German Name
Abchasisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Sinhalese people
History
Origin
c. 1650
3
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
NA70
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ab
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
sin
ISO 639 2/B
abk
sin
ISO 639 3
abk
sin
ISO 639 6
abks
Not Available
Glottocode
abkh1244
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional