1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Finland
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Old Norse Language
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
jag älskar dig
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Dialects
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Dialects
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Dialects
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
15.00 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.70 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
13th Century
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Swedish
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology