Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Macedonia
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
singhalais
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
3
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Macedonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic