Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Lithuania
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Latvian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5432
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3620
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
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Sveiki
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Ačiū
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Labanakt
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Laba diena
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Labas rytas
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Prašom
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
atsiprašau
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Ate
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Vedda
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
-
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Curonian
Where They Speak
-
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
110
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
singhalais
lituanien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Lithuanians
Origin
3
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Lithuanian
Language Position
7044
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
lit
ISO 639 2/B
sin
lit
ISO 639 3
sin
lit
ISO 639 6
sin
lit
Glottocode
sinh1246
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic