Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Sri Lanka
Latvia
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Latvian State Language Center
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5433
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
189
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Sveiki
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Paldies
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Labdien
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Labrīt
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
lūdzu
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Piedodiet!
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Vedda
Livonian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Latvia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
-
Latvia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
High Latvian
Where They Speak
-
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Lettish
French Name
singhalais
letton
German Name
Singhalesisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Latvians or Letts
Origin
3
1530
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Baltic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Latvian
Language Position
709
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
lav
ISO 639 2/B
sin
lav
ISO 639 3
sin
lav
ISO 639 6
sin
lav
Glottocode
sinh1246
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic