Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
- 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
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
serbe
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
11th 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
Standard Serbian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional