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 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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.50 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional