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Albanian

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Sinhalese



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Albanian and Sinhalese

Countries

Countries

Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
  • 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
  • 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

Romanian
Maldivian Language

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3654
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

718
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2936
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

52
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Përshëndetje
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Ju faleminderit
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Si jeni?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

natën e mirë
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

mirëmbrëma
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

mirëdita
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

mirëmengjes
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

Ju lutem
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

Me fal
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

mirupafshim
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

unë e dua ju
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Më falni
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gheg Albanian
Vedda

Where They Speak

Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

3,400,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tosk Albanian
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
-

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Arbëresh
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Italy
-

How Many People Speak

100,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

41
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.50 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.11 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.10 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.60 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

shqip / gjuha shqipe
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Shqip
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

albanais
singhalais

German Name

Albanisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[ʃcip]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Albanians
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

1462 AD
3

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Albanian
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Standard Albanian
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

1470
1 120
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Signed Forms

Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sq
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sqi
sin

ISO 639 2/B

alb
sin

ISO 639 3

sqi
sin

ISO 639 6

sqi
sin

Glottocode

alba1267
sinh1246

Linguasphere

55-AAA-aaa
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional

Albanian and Sinhalese Alphabets

Albanian and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Albanian and Sinhalese. In Albanian Alphabets there are 36 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Albanian and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Albanian and Sinhalese languages. The Albanian phonology consist Albanian vowels and Albanian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Albanian greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Albanian and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Albanian and Sinhalese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Albanian and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Albanian and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Albanian are spoken in different Albanian Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Albanian vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Albanian dialects include: Gheg Albanian, Tosk Albanian. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Albanian and Sinhalese Speaking population

Albanian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Albanian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Albanian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Albanian language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Albanian and Sinhalese on Albanian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Albanian and Sinhalese Language Codes

Albanian and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Albanian and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.