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
Lesotho, 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
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Old Norse Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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
Not Available
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
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
hej då
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
jag älskar dig
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
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 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.70 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
13th Century
16th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Bantu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Swedish
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
isiXhosa
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Signed Xhosa
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
99-AUT-fa
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available