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 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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
8.70 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
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
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
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
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional