Countries
Sri Lanka
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, 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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5430
18
247
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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
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)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
-
Serbia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Torlakian
Where They Speak
-
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million8.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Montenegrin
French Name
singhalais
serbe
German Name
Singhalesisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Serbs
Origin
3
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Serbian
Language Position
7044
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
srp
ISO 639 2/B
sin
srp
ISO 639 3
sin
srp
ISO 639 6
sin
srp
Glottocode
sinh1246
serb1264
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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