Countries
Sri Lanka
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5430
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3625
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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)
Zdravo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Hvala
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kako si?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Laku noc
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Dobar dan
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Dobro jutro
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
molim vas
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Oprostite
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Zbogom
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Volim te
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Vedda
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Chakavian
Where They Speak
-
Croatia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
-
Croatia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
singhalais
bosniaque
German Name
Singhalesisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Bosniaks
Origin
3
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Bosnian
Language Position
7024
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
bos
ISO 639 2/B
sin
bos
ISO 639 3
sin
bos
ISO 639 6
sin
boss
Glottocode
sinh1246
bosn1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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