Language comparison
Swedish vs Norwegian Bokmål
Both belong to the Indo-European family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: North Germanic.
Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.
Swedish
svenska
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- North Germanic
- North Scandinavian
- East-Central Swedic
- East Swedic
- Swedish
- Script
- Latin
- Hello / thank you
- hej / tack
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 13 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (2)
- Sweden, Åland Islands
- Co-official (1)
- Finland
- Without status
- widely used in 1 country
Norwegian Bokmål
norsk bokmål
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- North Germanic
- West Scandinavian
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Script
- Latin
- Hello / thank you
- hei / takk
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 5.5 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Co-official (1)
- Norway
Where they are spoken
- Swedish 4
- Norwegian Bokmål 1
Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.