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
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
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
Standard Serbian
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
sinh1246
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
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.