Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
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
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Russki
  
French Name
singhalais
  
russe
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Russians
  
Origin
3
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic