Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Sri Lanka
National Language
Austria
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
- 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
Serbain and Bosnian
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Church Slavonic
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
hvala
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
kako si
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
laku noć
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
dobra večer
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
dobro jutro
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
molim
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Oprostite
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Doviđenja
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Volim te
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Croatia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Not Available
Where They Speak
Croatia
Not Available
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Not Available
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
hrvatski
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
croate
singhalais
German Name
Kroatisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Croats
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
croa1245
sinh1246
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Croatian 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 Croatian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Sinhalese language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Croatian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian 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 Croatian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.