Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Sri Lanka
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
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Not Available
Where They Speak
Olonets
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Not Available
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Russki
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
russe
singhalais
German Name
Russisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Russian 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 Russian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Sinhalese language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Russian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.