Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Sweden
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Finland
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hej
  
您好
  
Thank You
tacka dig
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
hur mår du
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
godnatt
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
god kväll
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
god morgon
  
早上好
  
Please
vänligen
  
请
  
Sorry
ledsen
  
遗憾
  
Bye
hej då
  
再见
  
I Love You
jag älskar dig
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Dialects
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Gabon
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dialects
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Georgia
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Dialects
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
52.00 million
  
21
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
Not Available
  
Native Name
Svenska
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
suédois
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Schwedisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
  
Not Available
  
Origin
13th Century
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Swedish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
sv
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swe
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
swe
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
swe
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swed1254
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Swedish and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swedish and Cantonese language. Swedish word for "Hello" is hej or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Swedish Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swedish vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Swedish vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swedish Alphabets and Cantonese 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 Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swedish and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swedish is 24 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.