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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Malawi, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Sweden
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Second Language

Finland
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Antartica, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

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

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.

Similar To

Norwegian and Danish Language
Zulu language

Derived From

Old Norse Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2931
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1818
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks32 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hej
Moni

Thank You

tacka dig
Zikomo

How Are You?

hur mår du
Muli bwanji?

Good Night

godnatt
Usiku wabwino

Good Evening

god kväll
Madzulo abwino

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag
Masana abwino

Good Morning

god morgon
M'mawa wabwino

Please

vänligen
Chonde

Sorry

ledsen
pepani

Bye

hej då
anatsanzikana

I Love You

jag älskar dig
Ndimakukondani

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig
Pepani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects
Kasungu

Where They Speak

Gabon
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects
Kikamtunda

Where They Speak

Georgia
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects
Kimaravi

Where They Speak

France
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.001,200,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

795
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million12.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska
Nyanja

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa

French Name

suédois
chichewa; chewa; nyanja

German Name

Schwedisch
Nyanja-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[ˈtʃewa]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes
Chewa people

History

Origin

13th Century
15th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Swedish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Swedish
Chewa

Language Position

8927
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Chewa Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sv
ny

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe
nya

ISO 639 2/B

swe
nya

ISO 639 3

swe
nya

ISO 639 6

swe
nya

Glottocode

swed1254
nyan1308

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw
99-AUS-xaa – xag

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

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Swedish and Chewa Alphabets

Swedish and Chewa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swedish and Chewa. In Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Swedish and Chewa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swedish and Chewa 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 Chewa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swedish and Chewa are Most Spoken Languages.

All Swedish and Chewa 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 Chewa dialects. Various dialects of Swedish and Chewa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swedish are spoken in different Swedish Speaking Countries whereas Chewa Dialects are spoken in different Chewa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swedish vs Chewa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swedish dialects include: Dialects, Dialects. Chewa dialects include: Kasungu , Kikamtunda. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Swedish and Chewa Speaking population

Swedish and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 %. 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 Chewa on Swedish vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Chewa Language Codes

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