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 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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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)
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?
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
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
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
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional