Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Sweden
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Finland
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hej
  
Hai
  
Thank You
tacka dig
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
hur mår du
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
godnatt
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
god kväll
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
god morgon
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
vänligen
  
sila
  
Sorry
ledsen
  
maaf
  
Bye
hej då
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
jag älskar dig
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Dialects
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Gabon
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
6
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Dialects
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Georgia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 3
Dialects
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
  
1
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Svenska
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
  
Not Available
  
French Name
suédois
  
malais
  
German Name
Schwedisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
  
Not Available
  
Origin
13th Century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Swedish
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sv
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swe
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
swe
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
swe
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swed1254
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Swedish and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swedish and Malaysian language. Swedish word for "Hello" is hej or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Swedish Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swedish vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Swedish vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swedish Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swedish and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swedish is 24 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.