Countries
Macedonia
Sri Lanka
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
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Debar
Not Available
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Not Available
Dialect 3
Galičnik
Not Available
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Macedonians
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mace1250
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional
Macedonian 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 Macedonian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Sinhalese language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian 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 Macedonian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.