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Latvian vs Sinhalese


Sinhalese vs Latvian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Latvia  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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

Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
18  
15

How Many Consonants
24  
14
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
Sinhala alphabet  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

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  

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
1  
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.75 million  
99+
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.25 %  
99+

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  

History

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  
70  
99+

Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Latvian and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of Latvian vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of Latvian and Sinhalese language. History of Latvian language states that this language originated in 1530 whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Latvian and Sinhalese Language History.

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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.

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