Swedish is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, with at least 10 million native speakers, making it the fourth most spoken Germanic language.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2012-2021 estimate, native speakers. Partially Attested
Attested From (Year)1225 is the conventional start date of Old Swedish, the year Vastgotalagen is believed to have been first compiled; the oldest complete manuscript is later. Swedish
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Swedish (endonym: svenska) 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.
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10 million (2012-2021)
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is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland.
Geographic distribution
Swedish is the sole official national language of Sweden, and one of two in Finland (alongside Finnish).
Old Swedish
The start date is usually set to 1225 since this is the year that Västgötalagen ("the Västgöta Law") is believed to have been compiled for the first time.
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Top family: Indo-European languages; immediate branch: North Germanic languages.
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The prosody, pronunciation of vowels and consonants in such qualities as length, stress and intonation has more in common with Danish, German and Dutch, and occasionally English, than with Swedish.
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