Countries
Sri Lanka
  
European Union, Poland
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Poland
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
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.
  
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
cześć
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
dziękuję
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Jak się masz?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
dobranoc
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
dobry wieczór
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
dzień dobry
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Dzień dobry
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
proszę
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Przepraszam
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
do widzenia
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
kocham Cię
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
przepraszam
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Masovian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Poland
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Polski
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Polnisch, Polski
  
French Name
singhalais
  
polonais
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Polnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Poles
  
Origin
3
  
1270
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Polish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
pl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
pol
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
pol
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
pol
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
pols
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
poli1260
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-cc
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Sinhalese and Polish 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 Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Polish language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Polish Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Polish 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 Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.