Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Sweden
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Finland
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
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
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hej
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
tacka dig
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
hur mår du
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
godnatt
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
god kväll
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
god morgon
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
vänligen
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
ledsen
  
آسف
  
Bye
hej då
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
jag älskar dig
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Dialects
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Gabon
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dialects
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Georgia
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
2
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Dialects
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
  
1
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Svenska
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
suédois
  
arabe
  
German Name
Schwedisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
  
Arabs
  
Origin
13th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Swedish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sv
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swe
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
swe
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
swe
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swed1254
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic