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Sinhalese and Russian


Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
1  
14

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

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
18  
15

How Many Consonants
21  
11
36  
26

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Sinhala alphabet  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian  
Vedda  

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  
Sri Lanka  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
19,000,000.00  
30

Dialect 2
Olonets  
Sri Lankan Sinhala  

Where They Speak
Olonets  
-  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
19,000,000.00  
27

Dialect 3
Novgorod  
Up-Country Sinhalese  

Where They Speak
Novgorod  
-  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
16,000,000.00  
27

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
1  
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million  
6
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
2.33 %  
9
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
166.00 million  
8
16.00 million  
39

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
2.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
7  
7
70  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Russian  
Signed Sinhalese  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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All Russian and Sinhalese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Russian and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Russian and Sinhalese Speaking population

Russian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Sinhalese on Russian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Sinhalese Language Codes

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