Languages

Swedish

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Swedish." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/swedish.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Swedish. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/swedish

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-swedish,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Swedish},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/swedish},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

swe 1

Speaker Count

10,000,000 1

2012-2021 estimate, native speakers.

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Germanic

Source Wikipedia: Swedish Language

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Swedish Language

Wikimedia FoundationLead section

Quote, Lead section

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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1. Wikipedia: Swedish Language

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