Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
bok
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
molim
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
singhalais
  
croate
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Croats
  
Origin
3
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Sinhalese and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Croatian language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Croatian Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.