Countries
Belarus, Poland
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Poland
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- 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
Russian and Ukrainian
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4854
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3936
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
dobry dzień
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Dziakuj
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Dabranač
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Kali laska
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Vybačajcie
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
da pabačennia
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Vedda
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
-
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
-
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
9.63 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.60 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.89 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
biélorusse
singhalais
German Name
Weißrussisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Sinhalese people
Origin
18th century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Eastern
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
7970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
be
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
sin
ISO 639 2/B
bel
sin
ISO 639 3
bel
sin
ISO 639 6
bel
sin
Glottocode
bela1254
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional