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Bosnian vs Sinhalese


Sinhalese vs Bosnian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
18  
15

How Many Consonants
25  
15
36  
26

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Sinhala alphabet  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

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
13,000,000.00  
34
19,000,000.00  
30

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Sri Lankan Sinhala  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
-  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
99+
19,000,000.00  
27

Dialect 3
Kajkavian  
Up-Country Sinhalese  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
-  

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00  
23
16,000,000.00  
27

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
1  
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.50 million  
99+
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
3.00 million  
99+
16.00 million  
39

Second Language Speakers
20.00 million  
30
2.00 million  
99+

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
24  
22
70  
99+

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
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Fusional  

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Bosnian and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of Bosnian vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of Bosnian and Sinhalese language. History of Bosnian language states that this language originated in 19th Century whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Bosnian and Sinhalese Language History.

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Bosnian and Sinhalese Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Bosnian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Sinhalese language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bosnian vs Sinhalese Difficulty

The Bosnian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Sinhalese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Bosnian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.

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