Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Sri Lanka
  
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
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
letton
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1530
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
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
not Available
  
Not Available
  
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
  
Latvian and Sinhalese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Latvian and Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Sinhalese language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Sinhalese Difficulty
The Latvian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Sinhalese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Latvian and Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.