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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.
Swedish is the sole official national language of Sweden, and one of two in Finland (alongside Finnish). As of 2006, it was the sole native language of 83% of Swedish residents. [ 27 ] In 2007, around 5.5% (c. 290,000) of the population of Finland were native speakers of Swedish, [ 28 ] partially due to a decline following the Russian ...
This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language , regional language , or minority language .
Sami is an official language (besides Finnish) in the municipalities of northern Finland. In Norway six municipalities of Troms and Finnmark county, Sami is used officially along Norwegian. [235] In addition, kvensk, romani and romanes have status as minority languages. [236] Sweden has Swedish as its official language.
Sweden: 15 22 37 0.52 10,325,090 ... List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language; List of official languages by ...
Swedish became Sweden's main official language on July 1, 2009, when a new language law was implemented. [1] The issue of whether Swedish should be declared the official language has been raised in the past, and the parliament voted on the matter in 2005 but the proposal narrowly failed. [2]
The official language of Sweden is Swedish, [1] [2] a North Germanic language, related and very similar to Danish and Norwegian, but differing in pronunciation and orthography. The dialects spoken in Scania , the southernmost part of the country, are influenced by Danish because the region traditionally was a part of Denmark and is nowadays ...
Pages in category "Languages of Sweden" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...