Countries
European Union, Latvia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
- 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
Lithuanian Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
918
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2436
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Paldies
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Labvakar
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Labdien
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Labrīt
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
lūdzu
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Piedodiet!
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Livonian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Latvia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Latvia
-
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
latviešu valoda
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
letton
singhalais
German Name
Lettisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Sinhalese people
Origin
1530
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Latvian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
sin
ISO 639 2/B
lav
sin
ISO 639 3
lav
sin
ISO 639 6
lav
sin
Glottocode
latv1249
sinh1246
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional