Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
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Slovak-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)
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
5.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
singhalais
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
3
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Slovak
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic
  
Sinhalese and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sinhalese and Slovak language. Sinhalese word for "Hello" is හලෝ (halō) or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Sinhalese Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sinhalese vs Slovak Difficulty
The Sinhalese vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sinhalese Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sinhalese and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sinhalese is 44 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.