Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Sweden
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Finland
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hej
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
tacka dig
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
hur mår du
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
godnatt
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
god kväll
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
god morgon
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
vänligen
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
ledsen
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
hej då
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
jag älskar dig
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Dialects
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 2
Dialects
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Georgia
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Dialects
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Svenska
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
  
Russki
  
French Name
suédois
  
russe
  
German Name
Schwedisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
  
Russians
  
Origin
13th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Swedish
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sv
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swe
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
swe
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
swe
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swed1254
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic