Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
- 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
Norwegian and Swedish
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Old Norse Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2954
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2018
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Mange tak
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
God nat
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
God aften
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
God morgen
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Undskyld!
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Farvel
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Scanian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Sweden
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
80,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jutlandic
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Denmark
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.50 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.50 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
dansk
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
danois
singhalais
German Name
Dänisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
Sinhalese people
Origin
c. 1100 AD
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
1870
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Danish
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
da
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dan
sin
ISO 639 2/B
dan
sin
ISO 639 3
dan
sin
ISO 639 6
dan
sin
Glottocode
dani1284
sinh1246
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional