Swedish
North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland
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Summary
Swedish is a language[1]. Swedish ranks in the top 0.16% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,335 views/month, #9 of 5,611).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Sweden[3], Finland[4], Estonia[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6]
- Subclass of: East Scandinavian[7]
- Writing system: Latin script[8], Swedish alphabet[9]
- Commons category: Swedish language[10]
- Wikimedia language code: sv[11]
- Has part(s): Contemporary Swedish[12], South Swedish[13], Götamål dialect[14], Svealand Swedish[15], Norrland Swedish[16], Gutnish[17], Eastern Swedish[18], Gotlandic[19]
- Coordinate location: 60, 16[20]
- Topic's main category: Category:Swedish language[21]
- Language regulatory body: Swedish Language Council[22], Swedish Academy[23], Institute for the Languages of Finland[24]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 9,244,250[25], 3,118,000[26]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[28], The American Cyclopædia[29], New International Encyclopedia[30], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[31]
- Topic has template: Šablona:Švédština[32], Template:Lang-sv[33]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/swedish[34], https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/swedish[35]
- Has characteristic: agreement[36], translation from Swedish[37], translation into Swedish[38]
- Native label: svenska[39]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C154146[40]
- Short name: шведский[41], шведська[42], шведӣ[43], шведаг[44], шведски[45]
- History of topic: history of Swedish[46]
- Indigenous to: Kymenlaakso[47], Ostrobothnia[48], Sweden[49], Åland[50], Aiboland[51]
Why It Matters
Swedish has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] Swedish is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]