Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, 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
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Serbia
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
singhalais
  
serbe
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Serbs
  
Origin
3
  
11th 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
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Sinhalese and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Serbian language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Serbian Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Serbian 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 Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.