1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Norwegian and Swedish
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Old Norse 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
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Mange tak
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Hvordan har du det?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
God nat
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
God aften
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
God eftermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
God morgen
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Please
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Undskyld!
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Jeg elsker dig
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Undskyld mig
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Island of Bornholm
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million5.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million5.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Dansk, Rigsdansk
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Danish people or Danes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Rigsdansk
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Danish
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
No data available
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology