1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Serbian and Croatian
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
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
Hvala
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kako si?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Laku noc
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Dobro veće
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Dobar dan
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Dobro jutro
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
molim vas
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Oprostite
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Volim te
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Oprostite
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA13,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA660,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million3.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million3.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Bosniaks
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
part of 53-AAA-g
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology