Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
bok
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
molim
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
singhalais
  
croate
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Croats
  
Origin
3
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Sinhalese and Croatian Speaking population
Sinhalese and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sinhalese and Croatian on Sinhalese vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Croatian Language Codes
Sinhalese and Croatian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Croatian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.