Swedish

Also known as Swedish language, Svenska, swed1254

North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland

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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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has characteristic: agreement
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 3118000
native label: svenska
Commons category: Swedish language
short name: шведӣ
Wikimedia language code: sv
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SWE
P10369: beer
P11012: Belarus
entry in abbreviations table: швед.
Stack Exchange tag: linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/swedish
female form of label: la langue suédoise
NCI Thesaurus ID: C154146

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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.