Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Poland
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
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.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5432
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
189
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
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)
cześć
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
dziękuję
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Jak się masz?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
dobranoc
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
dzień dobry
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Dzień dobry
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
proszę
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Przepraszam
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
do widzenia
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Vedda
Kashubian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Poland
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Masovian
Where They Speak
-
Poland
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Silesian
Where They Speak
-
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
134
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.61 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Polski
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
singhalais
polonais
German Name
Singhalesisch
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Poles
Origin
3
1270
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Polish
Language Position
7024
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
pol
ISO 639 2/B
sin
pol
ISO 639 3
sin
pol
ISO 639 6
sin
pols
Glottocode
sinh1246
poli1260
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic