Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Not Available
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Abkhazia
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
singhalais
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
3
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Sinhalese and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sinhalese and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Abkhaz language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sinhalese and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.