Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
91
0
46
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National Language
Austria
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
- 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
Serbain and Bosnian
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Church Slavonic
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
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
bok
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
hvala
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
kako si
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
laku noć
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
dobra večer
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
dobro jutro
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
molim
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Oprostite
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Doviđenja
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Volim te
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Croatia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
660,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Croatia
-
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
-
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
791
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
89.00 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.60 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
hrvatski
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
croate
singhalais
German Name
Kroatisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Croats
Sinhalese people
Origin
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2370
1
120
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Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hr
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
sin
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
sin
ISO 639 3
hrv
sin
ISO 639 6
hrv
sin
Glottocode
croa1245
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, Synthetic
Fusional