national minority languages — Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sámi languages and Yiddish — and Swedish Sign Language. For most of its history, Sweden was a larger...

In 1999, the Minority Language Committee of Sweden formally declared five official minority languages: Finnish, Sámi languages, Romani, Yiddish, and Meänkieli...

Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countries overall. Swedish, like the other Nordic languages, is a descendant of Old...

or other symbols. Sámi languages (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee), in English also rendered as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people...

two main official languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. There are also several official minority languages: three variants of Sami, as well as...

that the people of south Scandinavia spoke Proto-Norse at the time, a language ancestral to Swedish and other North Germanic languages. In the sixth century...

Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most...

of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant...

dialects of the Old Norse language; Danish and Swedish are also classified as East Scandinavian or East Nordic languages. Scandinavian languages are often...

Swedish Sign Language (SSL; Svenskt teckenspråk) is the sign language used in Sweden. It is recognized by the Swedish government as the country's official...

The Language Council of Sweden (Swedish: Språkrådet) is the primary regulatory body for the advancement and cultivation of the Swedish language. The council...

The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Statistiska centralbyrån (Statistics Sweden). Sweden's population was 10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023), making it the...

Finland Swedish or Fenno-Swedish (Swedish: finlandssvenska; Finnish: suomenruotsi) is a variety of the Swedish language and a closely related group of Swedish...

Kingdom of Denmark has only one official language, Danish, the national language of the Danish people, but there are several minority languages spoken...

Scandinavian languages. According to Statistics Finland, Swedish is the mother tongue of about 260,000 people in mainland Finland and of about 26,000...

of the population of Sweden. In addition to a smaller part of Sweden Finns historically residing in Sweden, there were about 426,000 people in Sweden...

where they are an officially recognized minority, with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country and with a substantial diaspora in other...

250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018...

non-European languages influenced by such languages, In these languages, there is frequent confusion between the names of Sweden and of Switzerland (Spanish...

significant enough to treat them as two separate languages within the Central Zone (Hindustani) group of languages. The Dom and the Rom therefore likely descend...

Dalecarlian (Swedish: dalmål) is a group of North Germanic languages and dialects spoken in Dalarna County, Sweden. Some Dalecarlian varieties can be...

Uralic language family. In Sweden, Saami is one of five recognized minority languages, but the term "Saami" comprises different Saami varieties/languages but...

Gutnic (Swedish: gutniska or gutamål), is the original language spoken on parts of the islands of Gotland and Fårö. The different dialects of Gutnish...

Norwegian: Nordsamisk; Swedish: Nordsamiska; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sámi languages. The area where Northern...

language is disputed, but in Sweden it is officially recognized as one of the country's five minority languages and is treated as a distinct language...

languages as working languages). Irish previously had the lower status of "treaty language" before being upgraded to an official and working language...

in the southeastern part of Älvdalen Municipality in northern Dalarna, Sweden. Like all other modern North Germanic languages, Elfdalian developed from...

the Frisian languages with over 500,000 native speakers in the Netherlands and Germany. The largest North Germanic languages are Swedish, Danish and Norwegian...

between the Swedish language and the native languages of Yugoslavia, pupils from the former Yugoslavia (who comprised a large portion of asylum immigrants...

This is a list of Swedish-language newspapers with their respective cities of publication. Swedish newspaper circulation (number of copies sold) is measured...