Countries
Ukraine
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
- 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
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2236
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
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
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
будь ласк
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Podillian
Vedda
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
-
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
-
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
151
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
ukrainien
singhalais
German Name
Ukrainisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Sinhalese people
Origin
1561
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Eastern
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2670
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
sin
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
sin
ISO 639 3
ukr
sin
ISO 639 6
ukr
sin
Glottocode
ukra1253
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional