Countries
Sri Lanka
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
19
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Austria
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5430
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3625
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
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)
bok
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
hvala
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
kako si
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
laku noć
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
dobar dan
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
dobro jutro
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
molim
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Oprostite
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Doviđenja
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Volim te
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Vedda
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Croatia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Chakavian
Where They Speak
-
Croatia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
-
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
179
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %89.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million5.60 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Hrvatski
French Name
singhalais
croate
German Name
Singhalesisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Croats
Origin
3
9th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
7023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
sin
hrv
ISO 639 3
sin
hrv
ISO 639 6
sin
hrv
Glottocode
sinh1246
croa1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic