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Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries
4 11

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
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
29 11

Phonology

How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
18 8

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

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 9

Dialect 2
Dialects

Where They Speak
Georgia

How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00 7

Dialect 3
Dialects

Where They Speak
France

How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00 5

Total No. Of Dialects
79 33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
15.00 million 47

Speaking Population
0.13 % 54

Native Speakers
8.70 million 50

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million 51

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 70

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.

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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.

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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.

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