Countries
Sri Lanka
Czech Republic, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Czech Republic
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, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Institute of the Czech 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 Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5442
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1832
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3632
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
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
ahoj
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
děkuji
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Jak se máš?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
dobrou noc
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
dobré odpoledne
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
dobré ráno
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
prosím
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
litovat
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
sbohem
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Miluji tě
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
promiňte
Dialect 1
Vedda
Chod
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Chodsko, Bohemia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Lach
Where They Speak
-
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0010,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Moravian
Where They Speak
-
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00108,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
113
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
čeština / český jazyk
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bohemian, Cestina
French Name
singhalais
tchèque
German Name
Singhalesisch
Tschechisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Czechs
Origin
3
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Czech
Language Position
7073
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Czech Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
cs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
ces
ISO 639 2/B
sin
cze
ISO 639 3
sin
ces
ISO 639 6
sin
ces
Glottocode
sinh1246
czec1258
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