1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Bulgaria, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Macedonian language
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
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
හලෝ (halō)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Как си? (Kak si?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Моля (Molja)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Обичам те (Običam te)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vedda
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Panagyurishte
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
български (bãlgarski)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Balgarski
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Bulgarian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Bulgarian Sign Language
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
53-AAA-hb
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