Countries
Sri Lanka
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Sri Lanka
Norway
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
189
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
24
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)
takk
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
god natt
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
god morgen
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Vær så snill
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
unnskyld
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
ha det
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Vedda
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Sognamål
Where They Speak
-
Sogn
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
-
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
119
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.25 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Norsk
French Name
singhalais
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Singhalesisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Norwegians
Origin
3
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
7018
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
si
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
nor
ISO 639 2/B
sin
nor
ISO 639 3
sin
nor
ISO 639 6
sin
nor
Glottocode
sinh1246
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional