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Sinhalese
Sinhalese



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Countries

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  • 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

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Maldivian Language

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3054
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

518
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2536
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

52
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Добро вече (Dobro veče)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Добар дан (Dobar dan)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

Молим (Molim)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Vedda

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Serbia
-

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
-

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

31
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

serbe
singhalais

German Name

Serbisch
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

11th Century
3

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

4470
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
sin

ISO 639 2/B

srp
sin

ISO 639 3

srp
sin

ISO 639 6

srp
sin

Glottocode

serb1264
sinh1246

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional

Serbian and Sinhalese Alphabets

Serbian and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Serbian and Sinhalese. In Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Serbian and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Serbian and Sinhalese languages. The Serbian phonology consist Serbian vowels and Serbian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Serbian greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Serbian and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Serbian 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 Serbian and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Serbian and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Serbian are spoken in different Serbian Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Serbian vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok, Smederevo–Vršac. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Sri Lankan Sinhala. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Serbian and Sinhalese Speaking population

Serbian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % 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 Serbian and Sinhalese on Serbian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Sinhalese Language Codes

Serbian and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Serbian and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.