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 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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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)
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?
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
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
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
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional