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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

47
0 46
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National Language

Sweden
Germany

Second Language

Finland
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Antartica, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Norwegian and Danish Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

Old Norse Language
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

910
0 32
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How Many Consonants

189
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hej
hallo

Thank You

tacka dig
Danke

How Are You?

hur mår du
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

godnatt
gute Nacht

Good Evening

god kväll
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag
guten Tag

Good Morning

god morgon
guten Morgen

Please

vänligen
bitte

Sorry

ledsen
Verzeihung

Bye

hej då
Tschüs

I Love You

jag älskar dig
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Gabon
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Georgia
Germany

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects
Texas German

Where They Speak

France
Texas

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7928
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

suédois
allemand

German Name

Schwedisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes
Germans

History

Origin

13th Century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Germanic

Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Swedish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Swedish
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

899
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sv
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe
deu

ISO 639 2/B

swe
ger

ISO 639 3

swe
deu

ISO 639 6

swe
deus

Glottocode

swed1254
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Swedish and German Alphabets

Swedish and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swedish and German. In Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Swedish and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swedish and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swedish and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swedish and German Speaking population

Swedish and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and German languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Swedish vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and German Language Codes

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