Countries
Sri Lanka
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Romanian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5436
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
187
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3629
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
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Përshëndetje
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Si jeni?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
natën e mirë
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
mirëdita
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
mirëmengjes
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ju lutem
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Me fal
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
mirupafshim
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Më falni
Dialect 1
Vedda
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
-
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
-
Italy
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million3.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Shqip
French Name
singhalais
albanais
German Name
Singhalesisch
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Albanians
Origin
3
1462 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Albanian
Language Position
7014
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
sin
alb
ISO 639 3
sin
sqi
ISO 639 6
sin
sqi
Glottocode
sinh1246
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic