Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
  
- 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
Latvian
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.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
Ačiū
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Prašom
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Ate
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
lituanien
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Lithuanian and Sinhalese Speaking population
Lithuanian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lithuanian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Lithuanian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. 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 Lithuanian and Sinhalese on Lithuanian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Lithuanian and Sinhalese Language Codes
Lithuanian and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Lithuanian and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.