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
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3621
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Olonets
Where They Speak
-
Olonets
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Novgorod
Where They Speak
-
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
113
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %2.33 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Русский
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Russki
French Name
singhalais
russe
German Name
Singhalesisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Russians
Origin
3
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Russian
Language Position
707
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
rus
ISO 639 2/B
sin
rus
ISO 639 3
sin
rus
ISO 639 6
sin
rus
Glottocode
sinh1246
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic