Countries
Sri Lanka
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Bulgaria
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5430
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
-
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Pirdop
Where They Speak
-
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
158
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Balgarski
French Name
singhalais
bulgare
German Name
Singhalesisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Bulgarian people
Origin
3
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
7088
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
bul
ISO 639 2/B
sin
bul
ISO 639 3
sin
bul
ISO 639 6
sin
buls
Glottocode
sinh1246
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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