1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
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, Macedonian Braille
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
හලෝ (halō)
Здраво (Zdravo)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Добар ден (Dobar den)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
жал (žal)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
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 million2.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million2.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Makedonisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Macedonians
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Macedonian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Macedonian 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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ha
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