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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 ( svenska (help·info)) is a language mostly spoken in Sweden and in parts of Finland, typically along the southern and western coasts and on the Åland islands. More than nine million people speak Swedish.
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Mar 29, 2024 · 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.
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The Swedish Wikipedia (Swedish: Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia) is the Swedish-language edition of Wikipedia and was started on the 23 of May 2001. It is currently the fifth largest Wikipedia by article count with its 2,581,806 current articles, it has a Wikipedia article depth of 17.48.
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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 and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian, with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility and forms a dialect continuum.
- (Officially recognised) Sámi languages, Swedish.
Native name: svenska [svɛnːska] Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, North Germanic, East Scandinavian, Continental Scandinavian. Number of speakers: c. 10.2 million. Spoken in: Sweden, Finland, Estonia. First written: AD 1225. Writing system: Runic script (9th-11th century), then the Latin alphabet.
Swedish is a pluricentric language: it is the official language in both Sweden and Finland. In the Swedish language act, it is stated that Swedish is the main language in Sweden and, as such, the common language of all society (Språklag, 2009, p. 4–5). In Finland, Swedish is one of two national languages, the other one being Finnish.
