Swedish
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Swedish is a North Germanic language primarily spoken in Sweden and also by communities in Finland. It matters as the native language of millions of people in Scandinavia and as an important part of Nordic cultural and political identity.
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- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- East Scandinavian
- Has part
- Gutnish (from 1900)
- Country
- Åland
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- Östergötlands dagblad april 1938.jpg
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Swedish (endonym: svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, making it the fourth most spoken Germanic language, and the first among its type in the Nordic countries overall.
Swedish, like the other Nordic languages, is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Age. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish, although the degree of mutual intelligibility is dependent on the dialect and accent of the speaker.
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Culture of ScandinaviaEast Scandinavian languagesLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 25Language articles with Linguasphere codeLanguages of EstoniaLanguages of FinlandLanguages of SwedenLanguages with ISO 639-1 codeLanguages with ISO 639-2 codeNorth Germanic languagesStress-timed languagesSubject–verb–object languages