Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
- 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
Latvian
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
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
Ačiū
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Labanakt
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Prašom
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
atsiprašau
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Ate
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Lithuania
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Lithuania
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
101
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
lituanien
singhalais
German Name
Litauisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Sinhalese people
Origin
c. 1503
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Baltic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
4470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
sin
ISO 639 2/B
lit
sin
ISO 639 3
lit
sin
ISO 639 6
lit
sin
Glottocode
lith1251
sinh1246
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional