1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
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
takk
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
god natt
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
god kveld
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
god morgen
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Vær så snill
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
unnskyld
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Norsk
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Norwegians
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Not Available
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
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology