Countries
Sri Lanka
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Russia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary