Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Not Available
  
French Name
singhalais
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
3
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic