Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Afganistan
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1018
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
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
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
30,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Olonets
-
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Novgorod
-
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
131
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
2.33 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Russki
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
russe
singhalais
German Name
Russisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Russians
Sinhalese people
Origin
1000 AD
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Eastern
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
770
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
sin
ISO 639 2/B
rus
sin
ISO 639 3
rus
sin
ISO 639 6
rus
sin
Glottocode
russ1263
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
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