Countries
Macedonia
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian 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
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
macédonien
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Southern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Fusional