Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Sweden
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Finland
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
- 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
Norwegian and Danish Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hej
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
tacka dig
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
hur mår du
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
godnatt
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
god kväll
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
god morgon
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
vänligen
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
ledsen
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
hej då
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
jag älskar dig
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Dialects
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Gabon
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dialects
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Georgia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Dialects
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Svenska
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
suédois
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Schwedisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
13th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Swedish
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sv
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swe
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
swe
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
swe
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swed1254
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Swedish and Sinhalese Speaking population
Swedish and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % 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 Swedish and Sinhalese on Swedish vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swedish and Sinhalese Language Codes
Swedish and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swedish and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.