1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
1.6 Second Language
1.7 Speaking Continents
1.8 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.9 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
1.10 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.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
1.11 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Norwegian and Danish Language
1.12 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
2.5.1 How Many Consonants
2.6 Scripts
2.7 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.8 Hard to Learn
2.8.1 Language Levels
2.8.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
tacka dig
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
hur mår du
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
godnatt
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
god kväll
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
god eftermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
god morgon
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
vänligen
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ledsen
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
jag älskar dig
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ursäkta mig
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA78,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA78,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA96,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million15.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million8.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Ruotsi, Svenska
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Swedes, Finland Swedes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Swedish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Swedish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
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
52-AAA-ck to -cw
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