Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
45
0
46
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National Language
Sweden
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Finland
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Old Norse Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
924
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1823
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hej
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
tacka dig
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
hur mår du
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
godnatt
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
god kväll
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
god morgon
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
vänligen
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
ledsen
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
hej då
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
jag älskar dig
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Dialects
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Gabon
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dialects
Wu
Where They Speak
Georgia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Dialects
Yue
Where They Speak
France
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
7910
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
15.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Svenska
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
suédois
chinois
German Name
Schwedisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Han
Origin
13th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Swedish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Standard Chinese
Language Position
891
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sv
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swe
zho
ISO 639 2/B
swe
chi
ISO 639 3
swe
zho
ISO 639 6
swe
zho
Glottocode
swed1254
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating