1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
1.8 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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Здраво (Zdravo)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Молим (Molim)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Волим те (Volim te)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Извините (Izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Southeastern Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Smederevo–Vršac
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million8.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million8.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Montenegrin
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Serbian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-g
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology