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Serbian vs Sinhalese


Sinhalese vs Serbian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
1  
14

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

Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
18  
15

How Many Consonants
25  
15
36  
26

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Sinhala alphabet  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

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  

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
1  
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million  
99+
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.25 %  
99+

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  

History

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  

Language Position
44  
33
70  
99+

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Serbian and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of Serbian vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of Serbian and Sinhalese language. History of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th Century whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Serbian and Sinhalese Language History.

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Serbian 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 Serbian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Sinhalese language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Serbian vs Sinhalese Difficulty

The Serbian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian 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 Serbian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.

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