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Sinhalese
Sinhalese

Lithuanian
Lithuanian



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Sinhalese and Lithuanian

Countries

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
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5432
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1812
0 32
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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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Greetings

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

Dialects

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
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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese
Curonian

Where They Speak

-
Lithuania

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.003,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

110
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million3.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.25 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

16.00 million3.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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

Sinhalese and Lithuanian Alphabets

Sinhalese and Lithuanian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sinhalese and Lithuanian. In Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters while in Lithuanian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Sinhalese and Lithuanian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sinhalese and Lithuanian languages. The Sinhalese phonology consist Sinhalese vowels and Sinhalese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sinhalese greetings vs Lithuanian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sinhalese and Lithuanian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sinhalese and Lithuanian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sinhalese and Lithuanian dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and Lithuanian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas Lithuanian Dialects are spoken in different Lithuanian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs Lithuanian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Sri Lankan Sinhala. Lithuanian dialects include: Samogitian , Aukštaitian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sinhalese and Lithuanian Speaking population

Sinhalese and Lithuanian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Lithuanian languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Lithuanian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sinhalese and Lithuanian on Sinhalese vs Lithuanian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sinhalese and Lithuanian Language Codes

Sinhalese and Lithuanian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Lithuanian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.