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
-
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 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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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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
амритана
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Амарахь
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
-
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Vedda
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
106,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Caucasus
-
How Many People Speak
106,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Turkey
-
How Many People Speak
106,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.13 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-2.00 million
0.01
400
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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
[abxaz]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Sinhalese people
Origin
c. 1650
3
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2870
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
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
sin
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