Countries
Norway
Sri Lanka
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
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Not Available
Where They Speak
Sogn
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Not Available
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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)
Not Available
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Indic
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
sinh1246
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional
All Norwegian and Sinhalese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Norwegian and Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Norwegian and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Norwegian are spoken in different Norwegian Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Norwegian vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Norwegian dialects include: Jamtlandic, Sognamål. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Norwegian and Sinhalese Speaking population
Norwegian and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Norwegian and Sinhalese on Norwegian vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Norwegian and Sinhalese Language Codes
Norwegian and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.