1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Romanian
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Ju faleminderit
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Si jeni?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
natën e mirë
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
mirëmbrëma
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
mirëdita
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
mirëmengjes
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ju lutem
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Me fal
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
unë e dua ju
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Më falni
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Tosk Albanian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million3.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
shqip / gjuha shqipe
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Albanians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Albanian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Albanian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
55-AAA-aaa
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology