1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Latvia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Latvian State Language Center
1.8 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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Lithuanian Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Paldies
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kā jums klājas?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Ar labunakti
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Labvakar
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Labdien
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Labrīt
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
lūdzu
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Piedodiet!
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Uz redzēšanos
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Es tevi mīlu
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Piedodiet!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Middle Latvian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
High Latvian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
France, Latvia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1.75 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million1.75 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
latviešu valoda
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Lettish
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Latvians or Letts
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Latvian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology