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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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sinh1246
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic
Sinhalese and Russian Speaking population
Sinhalese and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Sinhalese vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Russian Language Codes
Sinhalese and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.