Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
Chinese.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
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
Where They Speak
Georgia
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
France
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
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
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
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Early Forms
Old Swedish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
swed1254
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
Swedish and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Swedish and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swedish and Chinese language. Swedish word for "Hello" is hej or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Swedish Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swedish vs Chinese Difficulty
The Swedish vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swedish Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Swedish and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swedish and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swedish is 24 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.