Countries
European Union, Poland
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Poland
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
- 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
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
918
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2336
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
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
cześć
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
dziękuję
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
dobranoc
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
proszę
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Przepraszam
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
do widzenia
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
kocham Cię
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
przepraszam
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Kashubian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Poland
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
108,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Masovian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Poland
-
How Many People Speak
45,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Silesian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
-
How Many People Speak
510,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
341
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
40.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.61 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Polski
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
polonais
singhalais
German Name
Polnisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Poles
Sinhalese people
Origin
1270
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Polish
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2470
1
120
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Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
pl
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pol
sin
ISO 639 2/B
pol
sin
ISO 639 3
pol
sin
ISO 639 6
pols
sin
Glottocode
poli1260
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional