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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Sweden
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

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
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Norwegian and Danish Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

Old Norse Language
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2924
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1821
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hej
Habari

Thank You

tacka dig
Asante

How Are You?

hur mår du
Habari gani?

Good Night

godnatt
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

god kväll
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

god morgon
Habari za asubuhi

Please

vänligen
tafadhali

Sorry

ledsen
pole

Bye

hej då
bye

I Love You

jag älskar dig
nakupenda

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Gabon
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Georgia
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects
Kimgao

Where They Speak

France
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7912
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

suédois
swahili

German Name

Schwedisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

13th Century
6th 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
Swahili

Language Position

8921
1 120
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Signed Forms

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

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

sv
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe
swa

ISO 639 2/B

swe
swa

ISO 639 3

swe
swa

ISO 639 6

swe
swa

Glottocode

swed1254
swah1254

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

-
-

Swedish and Swahili Alphabets

Swedish and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swedish and Swahili. In Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Swedish and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swedish and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swedish and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swedish and Swahili Speaking population

Swedish and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Swahili on Swedish vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Swahili Language Codes

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