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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Hong Kong, Macau

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Sweden
China, Guangdong

Second Language

Finland
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Antartica, Europe
Asia

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division

Interesting Facts

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.

Similar To

Norwegian and Danish Language
Chinese Language

Derived From

Old Norse Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2928
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

98
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1820
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

610
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hej
您好

Thank You

tacka dig
谢谢

How Are You?

hur mår du
你好吗?

Good Night

godnatt
晚安

Good Evening

god kväll
晚上好

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag
下午好

Good Morning

god morgon
早上好

Please

vänligen

Sorry

ledsen
遗憾

Bye

hej då
再见

I Love You

jag älskar dig
我爱你

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig
原谅我

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects
Guangzhou

Where They Speak

Gabon
outside mainland China

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects
Xiguan

Where They Speak

Georgia
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects
Hong Kong

Where They Speak

France
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

793
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million60.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million52.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million71.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska
Kwang Tung Wa

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese

French Name

suédois
cantonais

German Name

Schwedisch
Kantonesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes
Han Chinese

History

Origin

13th Century
17th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Swedish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Swedish
Standard Cantonese

Language Position

891
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Signed Cantonese

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

sv
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe
yue

ISO 639 2/B

swe
yue

ISO 639 3

swe
No data available

ISO 639 6

swe
yue

Glottocode

swed1254
cant1236

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

-
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Swedish and Cantonese Alphabets

Swedish and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swedish and Cantonese. In Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Swedish and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swedish and Cantonese languages. The Swedish phonology consist Swedish vowels and Swedish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Swedish greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swedish and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Swedish and Cantonese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Swedish and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Swedish and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swedish are spoken in different Swedish Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swedish vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swedish dialects include: Dialects, Dialects. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Swedish and Cantonese Speaking population

Swedish and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Cantonese on Swedish vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Cantonese Language Codes

Swedish and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swedish and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.