Countries
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
61
0
46
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National Language
Moldova, Romania
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Kazakhstan, Russia
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
- 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
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3154
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
718
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
alo
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
multumesc
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
ce mai faci?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
noapte Buna
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
buna Seara
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
buna Ziua
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
bună Dimineața
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Vă Rog
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
scuze
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
La revedere
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Te iubesc
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Scuza-Ma
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Aromanian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
250,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Megleno-Romanian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
-
How Many People Speak
5,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Istro-Romanian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Croatia
-
How Many People Speak
1,400.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
101
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
24.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
4.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Română
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
roumain; moldave
singhalais
German Name
Rumänisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[roˈmɨnə]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Romanians
Sinhalese people
Origin
1521
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Romanian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Romanian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3670
1
120
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Signed Forms
Romanian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ro
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ron
sin
ISO 639 2/B
rum
sin
ISO 639 3
ron
sin
ISO 639 6
ron
sin
Glottocode
roma1327
sinh1246
Linguasphere
51-AAD-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional