Countries
Sri Lanka
Macedonia
National Language
Sri Lanka
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
жал (žal)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Vedda
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not Available
Debar
Where They Speak
Not Available
Macedonia
Dialect 3
Not Available
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Not Available
Macedonia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
singhalais
macédonien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Macedonians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Macedonian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sinh1246
mace1250
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ha
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic
Sinhalese and Macedonian 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 Macedonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Macedonian language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Macedonian word for "Thank You" is Благодарам (Blagodaram). Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Macedonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Macedonian Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Macedonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Macedonian 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 Macedonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Macedonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Macedonian time required is 44 weeks.