Countries
Sri Lanka
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Czech Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5446
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1815
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3638
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
26
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)
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Dobré ráno
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Prosím
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Pardón!
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Dovidenia
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Vedda
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
-
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
-
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
singhalais
slovaque
German Name
Singhalesisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Slovaks
Origin
3
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Slovak
Language Position
7027
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
slk
ISO 639 2/B
sin
slo
ISO 639 3
sin
slk
ISO 639 6
sin
slk
Glottocode
sinh1246
slov1269
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic