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The following dialect groups are sometimes classified as "Swedish" in the broadest sense (North Scandinavian): [6] Archaic Gutnish. Dalecarlian. Archaic Finnish Swedish, Estonian Swedish, Swedish. Archaic Norrlandic, Jamtska. Dalecarlian is intermediate in some respects between East and West Scandinavian. Scanian, a dialect of East Danish, is ...
e. Swedish as a foreign language is studied by about 40,000 people worldwide at the university level and by over one million people on Duolingo. It is taught at over two hundred universities and colleges in 38 countries. [1] Swedish is the Scandinavian language most studied abroad. Svenska Institutet ( The Swedish Institute) plays a key role in ...
Old Norse. Old Swedish ( Modern Swedish: fornsvenska) is the name for two distinct stages of the Swedish language that were spoken in the Middle Ages: Early Old Swedish ( Klassisk fornsvenska ), spoken from about 1225 until about 1375, and Late Old Swedish ( Yngre fornsvenska ), spoken from about 1375 until about 1526. [2]
The Language Council of Sweden ( Swedish: Språkrådet) is the primary regulatory body for the advancement and cultivation of the Swedish language. The council is a department of the Swedish government's Institute for Language and Folklore ( Swedish: Institutet för språk och folkminnen ). The council asserts control over the language through ...
Finland Swedish or Fenno-Swedish [1] ( Swedish: finlandssvenska; Finnish: suomenruotsi) is a variety of the Swedish language and a closely related group of Swedish dialects spoken in Finland by the Swedish-speaking population, commonly also referred to as Finland Swedes, as their first language . For the most part, these dialects and the ...
Look up Swedish, svensk, or svenska in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swedish or svensk (a) may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland. Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by the Swedish language.
