Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
Similar To
Czech Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ahoj
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Dobrú noc
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Prosím
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Pardón!
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Dovidenia
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.20 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
slovenčina
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
slovaque
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Slowakisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Slovaks
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
6th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Slovak
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sk
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slk
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
slo
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
slk
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1269
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Slovak and Sinhalese 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 Slovak and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovak and Sinhalese language. Slovak word for "Hello" is Ahoj or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Slovak Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovak vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Slovak vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovak Alphabets and Sinhalese 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 Slovak and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovak and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovak is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.