Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Czech Republic, European Union
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Czech Republic
  
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, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Institute of the Czech 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.
  
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
ahoj
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
děkuji
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Jak se máš?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
dobrou noc
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
dobré odpoledne
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
dobré ráno
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
prosím
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
litovat
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
sbohem
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Miluji tě
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
promiňte
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Chod
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Chodsko, Bohemia
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Lach
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Moravian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
11.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
11.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
čeština / český jazyk
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Bohemian, Cestina
  
French Name
singhalais
  
tchèque
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Tschechisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Czechs
  
Origin
3
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Standard Czech
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Czech Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
cs
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
ces
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
cze
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
ces
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
czec1258
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Sinhalese and Czech 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 Czech greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Czech language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Czech word for "Thank You" is děkuji. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Czech Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Czech Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Czech difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Czech 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 Czech are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Czech, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Czech time required is 44 weeks.