Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Czech Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4654
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ahoj
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Dobrú noc
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Prosím
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Pardón!
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Dovidenia
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Vedda
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
-
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
-
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.20 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.20 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
slovenčina
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
slovaque
singhalais
German Name
Slowakisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
Sinhalese people
Origin
6th Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Slovak
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2770
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sk
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
sin
ISO 639 2/B
slo
sin
ISO 639 3
slk
sin
ISO 639 6
slk
sin
Glottocode
slov1269
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional