Countries
Sri Lanka
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Poland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5448
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3639
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
dobry dzień
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Dziakuj
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Jak vy ?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Dabranač
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
dobry dzień
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Dobraj ranicy
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Kali laska
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Vybačajcie
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
da pabačennia
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Vedda
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
-
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
-
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million9.63 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.89 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
singhalais
biélorusse
German Name
Singhalesisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Belarusians
Origin
3
18th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Belarusian
Language Position
7079
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
bel
ISO 639 2/B
sin
bel
ISO 639 3
sin
bel
ISO 639 6
sin
bel
Glottocode
sinh1246
bela1254
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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