Countries
Sri Lanka
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Ukraine
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5433
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
186
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3622
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
будь ласк
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Podillian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Volynian
Where They Speak
-
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Steppe
Where They Speak
-
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
115
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
singhalais
ukrainien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Ukrainians
Origin
3
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
7026
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
sin
ukr
ISO 639 3
sin
ukr
ISO 639 6
sin
ukr
Glottocode
sinh1246
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic