Countries
Ukraine
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
- 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
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
будь ласк
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1561
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Sinhalese language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.