1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
спасибо(spasibo)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
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 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Russki
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Russians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
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-ea
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
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic