Countries
Sri Lanka
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Norwegian and Swedish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1820
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Hallo
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Mange tak
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Hvordan har du det?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
God nat
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
God aften
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
God eftermiddag
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
God morgen
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Please
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Undskyld!
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Farvel
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Jeg elsker dig
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Undskyld mig
Dialect 1
Vedda
Scanian
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Sweden
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Jutlandic
Where They Speak
-
Denmark
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Bornholmsk
Where They Speak
-
Island of Bornholm
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
16.00 million5.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
16.00 million5.50 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
dansk
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Dansk, Rigsdansk
French Name
singhalais
danois
German Name
Singhalesisch
Dänisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Danish people or Danes
Origin
3
c. 1100 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Rigsdansk
Language Position
7018
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Danish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
da
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
dan
ISO 639 2/B
sin
dan
ISO 639 3
sin
dan
ISO 639 6
sin
dan
Glottocode
sinh1246
dani1284
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional