Countries
Sri Lanka
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
National Language
Sri Lanka
Abkhazia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
амритана
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Амарахь
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
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Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Извините (Izvinite)
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Abkhazia
Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
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Caucasus
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Sadz
Where They Speak
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Turkey
Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
singhalais
abkhaze
German Name
Singhalesisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Abkhaz people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Abkhaz
Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
sinh1246
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative
Sinhalese and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sinhalese and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Abkhaz language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sinhalese and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.