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Macedonian
Macedonian

Sinhalese
Sinhalese



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Macedonian and Sinhalese

Countries

Countries

Macedonia
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Albania, Romania, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
  • The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian 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

Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Maldivian Language

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3154
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

518
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2636
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

32
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Благодарам (Blagodaram)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Добар ден (Dobar den)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Добро утро (Dobro utro)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

Ве молиме (Ve molime)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

жал (žal)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Чао (Čao)
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Те сакам (Te sakam)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Torlakian
Vedda

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

1.5019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Debar
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Macedonia
-

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Galičnik
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Macedonia
-

How Many People Speak

2,100,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

281
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

2.50 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.05 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

2.50 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

macédonien
singhalais

German Name

Makedonisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Macedonians
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

2200 BC
3

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Southern
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Macedonian
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

4570
1 120
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Signed Forms

Macedonian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mk
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mkd
sin

ISO 639 2/B

mac
sin

ISO 639 3

mkd
sin

ISO 639 6

mkd
sin

Glottocode

mace1250
sinh1246

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ha
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
Fusional

Macedonian and Sinhalese Alphabets

Macedonian and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Macedonian and Sinhalese. In Macedonian Alphabets there are 31 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Macedonian and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Macedonian and Sinhalese languages. The Macedonian phonology consist Macedonian vowels and Macedonian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Macedonian greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Macedonian and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Macedonian and Sinhalese Speaking population

Macedonian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Macedonian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Macedonian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Macedonian language is 0.05 % 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 Macedonian and Sinhalese on Macedonian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Macedonian and Sinhalese Language Codes

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