Countries
Belarus, Poland
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Belarus, Gambia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Poland
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish 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
Russian and Ukrainian
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Belarusian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
dobry dzień
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Dziakuj
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Dabranač
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Kali laska
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Vybačajcie
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
da pabačennia
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
7.60 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million
  
26
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
biélorusse
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Weißrussisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Belarusians
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
18th century
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Belarusian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
be
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bel
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
bel
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
bel
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bela1254
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Belarusian and Sinhalese Speaking population
Belarusian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Belarusian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Belarusian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Belarusian language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Belarusian and Sinhalese on Belarusian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Belarusian and Sinhalese Language Codes
Belarusian and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Belarusian and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.