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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Sweden
South Africa

Second Language

Finland
Lesotho, South Africa

Speaking Continents

Antartica, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Botswana, Lesotho

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
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Interesting Facts

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  • Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
  • The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.

Similar To

Norwegian and Danish Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele

Derived From

Old Norse Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2953
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

910
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1843
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Molo

Thank You

tacka dig
Ndiyabulela

How Are You?

hur mår du
Unjani

Good Night

godnatt
Ulale kakuhle

Good Evening

god kväll
Ubusuku obuhle

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag
Uben' emva kwemini entle

Good Morning

god morgon
Molo

Please

vänligen
Ndicela

Sorry

ledsen
Ndicela uxolo

Bye

hej då
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle

I Love You

jag älskar dig
Ndiyakuthanda

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig
Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects
Gcaleka

Where They Speak

Gabon
South Africa

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects
Thembu

Where They Speak

Georgia
South Africa

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects
Hlubi

Where They Speak

France
South Africa

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.0019.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

799
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million20.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.11 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million8.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million11.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska
isiXhosa

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa

French Name

suédois
xhosa

German Name

Schwedisch
Xhosa-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes
amaXhosa, amaBhaca

History

Origin

13th Century
16th 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
isiXhosa

Language Position

8921
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Signed Xhosa

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sv
xh

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe
xho

ISO 639 2/B

swe
xho

ISO 639 3

swe
xho

ISO 639 6

swe
xho

Glottocode

swed1254
xhos1239

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw
99-AUT-fa

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Swedish and Xhosa Alphabets

Swedish and Xhosa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swedish and Xhosa. In Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Xhosa Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Swedish and Xhosa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swedish and Xhosa 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 Xhosa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swedish and Xhosa are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swedish and Xhosa Speaking population

Swedish and Xhosa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Xhosa languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Xhosa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 %. 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 Xhosa on Swedish vs Xhosa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Xhosa Language Codes

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