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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Sweden
Russia

Second Language

Finland
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Antartica, Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Interesting Facts

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Norwegian and Danish Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Old Norse Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2933
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

910
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1821
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hej
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

tacka dig
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

hur mår du
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

godnatt
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

god kväll
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

god morgon
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

vänligen
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

ledsen
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

hej då
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

jag älskar dig
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Gabon
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects
Olonets

Where They Speak

Georgia
Olonets

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects
Novgorod

Where They Speak

France
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7913
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska
Русский

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska
Russki

French Name

suédois
russe

German Name

Schwedisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes
Russians

History

Origin

13th Century
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Slavic

Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Swedish
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Standard Swedish
Standard Russian

Language Position

897
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sv
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe
rus

ISO 639 2/B

swe
rus

ISO 639 3

swe
rus

ISO 639 6

swe
rus

Glottocode

swed1254
russ1263

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Swedish and Russian Alphabets

Swedish and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swedish and Russian. In Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Swedish and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swedish and Russian 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 Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swedish and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swedish and Russian Speaking population

Swedish and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Swedish vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Russian Language Codes

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