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Bosnian

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Sinhalese



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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

University of Sarajevo
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian 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

Serbian and Croatian
Maldivian Language

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3054
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

518
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2536
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

-
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

Zdravo
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Hvala
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Kako si?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

Laku noc
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Dobro veće
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Dobar dan
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Dobro jutro
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

molim vas
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

Oprostite
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Zbogom
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Volim te
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Oprostite
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Shtokavian
Vedda

Where They Speak

Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Croatia
-

How Many People Speak

660,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kajkavian
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Croatia
-

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

61
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.50 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

20.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Bosanski Jezik
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

bosniaque
singhalais

German Name

Bosnisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[bɔ̌sanskiː]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Bosniaks
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

19th Century
3

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Bosnian
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

2470
1 120
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Signed Forms

Bosnian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

bs
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bos
sin

ISO 639 2/B

bos
sin

ISO 639 3

bos
sin

ISO 639 6

boss
sin

Glottocode

bosn1245
sinh1246

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional

Bosnian and Sinhalese Alphabets

Bosnian and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Bosnian and Sinhalese. In Bosnian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Bosnian and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Bosnian and Sinhalese languages. The Bosnian phonology consist Bosnian vowels and Bosnian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Bosnian greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Bosnian and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Bosnian 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 Bosnian and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Bosnian and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bosnian are spoken in different Bosnian Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bosnian vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bosnian dialects include: Shtokavian, Chakavian. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Bosnian and Sinhalese Speaking population

Bosnian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bosnian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Bosnian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bosnian language is 0.13 % 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 Bosnian and Sinhalese on Bosnian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bosnian and Sinhalese Language Codes

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