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Classification. Swedish is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages. In the established classification, it belongs to the East Scandinavian languages, together with Danish, separating it from the West Scandinavian languages, consisting of Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian.
Swedish language. In the 9th century, Old Norse began to diverge into Old West Norse (Norway and Iceland) and Old East Norse (Sweden and Denmark). In the 12th century, the dialects of Denmark and Sweden began to diverge, becoming Old Danish and Old Swedish in the 13th century. All were heavily influenced by Middle Low German during the medieval ...
Swedish is a Germanic language with some similarities to English because of the Vikings that invaded England in the 10th Century. It is even more similar to German and Dutch, partly because of the Hanseatic League of the Middle Ages, when Sweden traded very openly with Germany . There are three characters in the Swedish language that are not ...
The Swedish Wikipedia ( Swedish: Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia) is the Swedish-language edition of Wikipedia and was started on the 23 of May 2001. [1] It is currently the fifth largest Wikipedia by article count with its 2,583,374 current articles, it has a Wikipedia article depth of 17.49. [2] A majority were generated by Lsjbot, a bot, or ...
Apr 25, 2024 · Recent News. Swedish language, the official language of Sweden and, with Finnish, one of the two national languages of Finland. Swedish belongs to the East Scandinavian group of North Germanic languages. Until World War II, it was also spoken in parts of Estonia and Latvia. Swedish was spoken by about eight million Swedes in the early 21st century.
Languages of Sweden. (Officially recognised) Sámi languages, Swedish. (Unofficial languages / Dialects) South Swedish, Götamål, Svealand Swedish, Norrland, and Gutnish, among others. Swedish is the official language of Sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10.23 million inhabitants of the country. It is a North Germanic language ...
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 ...
