Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Antartica, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Norwegian and Danish Language
Derived From
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Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
hur mår du
Good Night
تصبح على خير
godnatt
Good Evening
مساء الخير
god kväll
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
صباح الخير
god morgon
I Love You
أحبك
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
اعذرني
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Dialects
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Gabon
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Dialects
Where They Speak
Sudan
Georgia
Dialect 3
Levantine
Dialects
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
France
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Svenska
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Ruotsi, Svenska
French Name
arabe
suédois
German Name
Arabisch
Schwedisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Ethnicity
Arabs
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Origin
512 CE
13th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Germanic
Branch
North Arabic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Swedish
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
arab1395
swed1254
Linguasphere
12-AAC
52-AAA-ck to -cw
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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Arabic and Swedish Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Arabic and Swedish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Swedish language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Swedish word for "Thank You" is tacka dig. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Swedish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Swedish Difficulty
The Arabic vs Swedish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Swedish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Arabic and Swedish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Swedish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Swedish time required is 24 weeks.