Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Sweden
Japan
Second Language
Finland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Palau
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
Korean Language
Derived From
Old Norse Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2999
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1814
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hej
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
tacka dig
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
hur mår du
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
godnatt
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
god kväll
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
god morgon
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
vänligen
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
ledsen
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
hej då
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
jag älskar dig
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Dialects
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Gabon
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dialects
Hakata
Where They Speak
Georgia
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Dialects
Kansai
Where They Speak
France
kansai
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
7931
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Svenska
日本語
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Nihongo
French Name
suédois
japonais
German Name
Schwedisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
13th Century
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Swedish
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Japanese
Language Position
898
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sv
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swe
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
swe
jpn
ISO 639 3
swe
jpn
ISO 639 6
swe
jpn
Glottocode
swed1254
nucl1643
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic