Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Sweden
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Finland
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.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 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
tacka dig
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
hur mår du
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
godnatt
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
god kväll
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
god morgon
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
vänligen
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
ledsen
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
hej då
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
jag älskar dig
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Dialects
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Gabon
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
6
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Dialects
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Georgia
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
2
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Dialects
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
France
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
  
1
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Svenska
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
  
Not Available
  
French Name
suédois
  
chinois
  
German Name
Schwedisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
  
Han
  
Origin
13th Century
  
1250 BC
  
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 Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sv
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swe
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
swe
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
swe
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swed1254
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Swedish and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swedish and Chinese language. Swedish word for "Hello" is hej or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Swedish Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swedish vs Chinese Difficulty
The Swedish vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swedish Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swedish and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swedish is 24 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.