Swedish language

North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland

The letter Å (å in lower case) represents various (although often similar) sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Rotuman, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume Sami, Pamirian languages, and Greenlandic alphabets. Additionally, it is part of the alphabets used for some Alemannic and Austro-Bavarian dialects of German.

a basic element of the writing system used for the Swedish language consisting of 29 letters

version of Swedish used in Finland by Swedish-speaking Finns

The '''sj-sound' ( ) is a voiceless fricative phoneme found in the sound system of most dialects of Swedish. It has a variety of realisations, whose precise phonetic characterisations are a matter of debate, but which often feature distinct labialization. The sound is represented in Swedish orthography by a number of spellings, the most common of which are (from which the common Swedish name for the sound is derived), , , and (before front vowels) ; if considered in complementary distribution with , up to 65 different spellings for the phoneme have been identified in native words and loanwords

North Germanic language

grammar of the Swedish language

Swedish government agency for language policy

governmental linguistic research institute of Finland

Swedish dialect

oral sound used in the Swedish language

Språkförsvaret (, "The Language Defence") is a politically independent network working to strengthen the Swedish language in Sweden and Finland. It is particularly concerned with defending the Swedish language from the global influence of English. The association was established in 2005.

Svorsk () or Svorska () is a portmanteau of svensk(a) 'Swedish' and norsk(a) 'Norwegian' to describe a mixture of the Swedish and Norwegian languages. It could be translated as Sworwegian in English.

Swedish dialects in Åland

aspect of history

language

'''' () was the process of popularization of the second-person singular pronoun as a universal form of address in Sweden that took place in the late 1960s. The use of du (cognate with English thou'', French , and German ) replaced an intricate former system where people chiefly addressed each other in third person, with or without a preceding Mr./Mrs./Ms. (, or ) before the title, often omitting both surname and given name. Less respectfully, people could be addressed with Mr./Mrs./Ms. plus surname, or in a family setting, alternatively even less respectfully, with the plain name or third pers

unofficial anthem for the Swedish-speaking population of Finland

A Sveticism () is a grammatical construction, loanword or calque originating from the Swedish language.

Rövarspråket () is a Swedish language game. It became popular after the books about Bill Bergson by Astrid Lindgren, where the children use it as a code, both at play and in solving actual crimes.