Countries
European Union, Poland
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Poland
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  
- 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
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Polish-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
cześć
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
dziękuję
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
dobranoc
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
proszę
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Przepraszam
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
do widzenia
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
kocham Cię
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
przepraszam
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Kashubian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Masovian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Silesian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
40.00 million
  
24
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Polski
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
polonais
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Polnisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Poles
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1270
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Polish
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pl
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pol
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
pol
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
pol
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
pols
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
poli1260
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Polish 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 Polish and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Polish and Sinhalese language. Polish word for "Hello" is cześć or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Polish Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Polish vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Polish vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Polish 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 Polish and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Polish and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Polish is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.