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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

49
0 46
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National Language

Sweden
Austria

Second Language

Finland
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Antartica, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Interesting Facts

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Norwegian and Danish Language
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

Old Norse Language
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2930
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1825
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hej
bok

Thank You

tacka dig
hvala

How Are You?

hur mår du
kako si

Good Night

godnatt
laku noć

Good Evening

god kväll
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag
dobar dan

Good Morning

god morgon
dobro jutro

Please

vänligen
molim

Sorry

ledsen
Oprostite

Bye

hej då
Doviđenja

I Love You

jag älskar dig
Volim te

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Gabon
Croatia

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Georgia
Croatia

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

France
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7979
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska
Hrvatski

French Name

suédois
croate

German Name

Schwedisch
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes
Croats

History

Origin

13th Century
9th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
-

Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Swedish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Swedish
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

8923
1 120
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Signed Forms

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

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sv
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

swe
hrv

ISO 639 3

swe
hrv

ISO 639 6

swe
hrv

Glottocode

swed1254
croa1245

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Swedish and Croatian Alphabets

Swedish and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swedish and Croatian. In Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Swedish and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swedish and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swedish and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swedish and Croatian Speaking population

Swedish and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Croatian on Swedish vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Croatian Language Codes

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