Countries
Norway
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
- 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
Swedish and Danish Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2954
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
918
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
42
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
takk
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
god natt
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
god kveld
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
god morgen
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Vær så snill
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
unnskyld
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
ha det
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Vedda
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
30,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Sogn
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
191
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
singhalais
German Name
Nynorsk
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Sinhalese people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
1870
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
sin
ISO 639 2/B
nor
sin
ISO 639 3
nor
sin
ISO 639 6
nor
sin
Glottocode
norw1258
sinh1246
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional