Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
- 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
Romanian
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
albanais
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Albanian 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 Albanian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Albanian and Sinhalese language. Albanian word for "Hello" is Përshëndetje or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Albanian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Albanian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Albanian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Albanian 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 Albanian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Albanian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Albanian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.