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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries

4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Sweden

Second Language

Finland

Speaking Continents

Antartica, Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council

Interesting Facts

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.

Similar To

Norwegian and Danish Language

Derived From

Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

18
Rank: 8 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hej

Thank You

tacka dig

How Are You?

hur mår du

Good Night

godnatt

Good Evening

god kväll

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag

Good Morning

god morgon

Please

vänligen

Sorry

ledsen

Bye

hej då

I Love You

jag älskar dig

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects

Where They Speak

Gabon

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.00
Rank: 9 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects

Where They Speak

Georgia

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.00
Rank: 7 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects

Where They Speak

France

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.00
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

79
Rank: 33 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million
Rank: 47 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %
Rank: 54 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million
Rank: 50 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million
Rank: 51 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska

French Name

suédois

German Name

Schwedisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes

History

Origin

13th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Swedish

Standard Forms

Standard Swedish

Language Position

89
Rank: 70 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe

ISO 639 2/B

swe

ISO 639 3

swe

ISO 639 6

swe

Glottocode

swed1254

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Know Alphabets in Swedish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Swedish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Swedish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Swedish. Swedish phonology gives Swedish vowels and Swedish consonants. There are 9 vowels and 18 consonants in Swedish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Swedish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Swedish language is given in detail in this section.

All Swedish countries

Want to explore all Swedish countries? About Swedish language serves you with all Swedish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Swedish as official language are called as Swedish countries.

  • Countries that use Swedish as their National Language are: Sweden.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Swedish as second language are: Finland.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Swedish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Swedish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Swedish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Swedish language.Learn Swedish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: hej
  • Thank you: tacka dig
  • Good Morning: god morgon
  • Good Evening: god kväll
  • Good Afternoon: god eftermiddag

All Swedish Language Codes

Get to know all Swedish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Swedish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.