Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
University of Sarajevo
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian 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
Serbian and Croatian
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Zdravo
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Kako si?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Laku noc
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Dobro veće
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Dobar dan
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
molim vas
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Zbogom
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Shtokavian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kajkavian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
3.50 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
bosniaque
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Bosnisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bosniaks
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
19th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Bosnian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bs
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bos
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
bos
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
bos
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
boss
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bosn1245
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Bosnian 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 Bosnian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Sinhalese language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bosnian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Bosnian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian 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 Bosnian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.