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1 day ago · During the 11th century, Sweden was visited by missionaries from Germany. During the Middle Ages, Hanseatic merchants had a great influence on Swedish trade and also the Swedish language. According to a survey, the proportion of German loanwords in Swedish is 24–30 percent (slightly depending on how you calculate).
5 days ago · C ( pronounced / ˈsiː / – like the letter c) [6] is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's features cleanly reflect the capabilities of the targeted CPUs. It has found lasting use in operating systems, device drivers, and protocol ...
3 days ago · Finnish language, member of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, spoken in Finland. At the beginning of the 19th century, Finnish had no official status, with Swedish being used in Finnish education, government, and literature. The publication in 1835 of the Kalevala, a national epic poem based on Finnish folklore, aroused ...
3 days ago · Christina (Swedish: Kristina; 18 December [O.S. 8 December] 1626 – 19 April 1689) was a member of the House of Vasa, and the Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. [a] She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death at the Battle of Lützen in 1632, but began ruling the Swedish Empire when she ...
2 days ago · Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( / ˈsɒrən ˈkɪərkəɡɑːrd / SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /- ɡɔːr / -gor, Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; [8] 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855 [9]) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first ...
2 days ago · notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth 's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [182] [183] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [184] c. 1891. Galela.
2 days ago · Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [a] and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth [b] was a bi- confederal [10] state, sometimes called a federation, [11] of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of ...
