Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Norway
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Norsk
  
French Name
singhalais
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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
  
Sinhalese and Norwegian Speaking population
Sinhalese and Norwegian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Norwegian languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Norwegian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available. 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 Sinhalese and Norwegian on Sinhalese vs Norwegian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Norwegian Language Codes
Sinhalese and Norwegian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Norwegian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.