Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Abkhazia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
- 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
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Caucasian languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Not Available
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Not available
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Not available
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Bzyb
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Caucasus
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Sadz
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Turkey
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.13 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
abkhaze
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Abchasisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
c. 1650
  
3
  
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ab
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
abk
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
abk
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
abk
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
abks
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
abkh1244
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Abkhaz and Sinhalese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Abkhaz and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Abkhaz and Sinhalese language. Abkhaz word for "Hello" is Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Abkhaz Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Abkhaz vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Abkhaz vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Abkhaz Alphabets and Sinhalese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Abkhaz and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Abkhaz and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Abkhaz is 27 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.