1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Benin, Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Finland
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Yoruba Academy
1.8 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 largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
1.9 Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
1.10 Derived From
Old Norse Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
1.3 Phonology
1.3.1 How Many Vowels
1.3.2 How Many Consonants
1.12 Scripts
1.13 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
1.14 Hard to Learn
1.14.1 Language Levels
1.14.2 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
2.2 Thank You
2.3 How Are You?
hur mår du
Bawo ni o se wa
2.4 Good Night
2.5 Good Evening
2.6 Good Afternoon
2.7 Good Morning
2.8 Please
2.9 Sorry
2.10 Bye
2.11 I Love You
jag älskar dig
mo nifẹ rẹ
2.12 Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
mo tọrọ gafara
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
3.2 Dialect 2
3.2.1 Where They Speak
3.2.2 How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00800,000.00
700
80000000
3.3 Dialect 3
3.3.1 Where They Speak
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
96,000,000.0010,000.00
1400
96000000
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
15.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
8.70 million28.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Yariba, Yooba
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
Schwedisch
Yoruba-Sprache
4.4 Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Not Available
4.5 Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Yoruba people
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Kwa
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
Old Swedish
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Yoruba Sign Language
5.4 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
No data available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating