Countries
Sri Lanka
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, 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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5431
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
185
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3626
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
жал (žal)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Debar
Where They Speak
-
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Galičnik
Where They Speak
-
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
singhalais
macédonien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Macedonians
Origin
3
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Macedonian
Language Position
7045
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
sin
mac
ISO 639 3
sin
mkd
ISO 639 6
sin
mkd
Glottocode
sinh1246
mace1250
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
Analytic