Swedish

Swedish is used by approximately 9,000,000 people as a native language and is mainly spoken in Sweden and Finland. About 95% among a population of 9,100,000 people in Sweden were born with Swedish as their mother tongue. Besides Swedish there are no further official languages in the country. About 300,000 Finland-Swedes live in Finland, particularly on the Åland islands, on the west and the south coast. Finland-Swedes make up 5,5% of the 5,300,000 inhabitants of Finland. In contrast to Sweden, Finland has two official languages: Finnish and Swedish. In addition there are some small communities in Estonia, the Ukraine, Canada, the U.S. and further countries in northern, central and western European countries. Swedish is an official language in Sweden, Finland and the European Union.

Swedish
Autoglottonym:	Svenska
Pronunciation:	[svɛnska]
Ethnologue name:	Swedish
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Location point:	Sweden: 62 00 N, 15 00 E, Finland: 64 00 N, 26 00 E
Genealogy
Family:	Indo-European
Genus:	Germanic Northwest Germanic North Germanic East Nordic Swedish
Speakers
Country:	Sweden, Finland
Official in:	Sweden Finland European Union
Speakers:	approximately 9,000,000: ~8,700,000 in Sweden (=95%) and 300,000 in Finland (=5,5%)
Writing system:	{{{WritingSyst}}}
Codes
ISO 639-1:	sv
ISO 639-2:	swe
ISO 639-3:	{{{ISO3}}}

Standard Swedish

Standard Swedish, or also called Rikssvenska, is a standardised form of Swedish which is relatively neutral compared to the different dialects. The term describes written and spoken Swedish, however, there is barely a pure spoken standard due to regional variations. Rikssvenska evolved from the dialects spoken around the Stockholm region. It is used in Sweden only and differs from Finland and Estonian Swedish among other things due to its phonology.

Dialectal Variations

• Norrländska mål
• Sveamål
• Gotländska mål
• Östsvenska mål (Finland)
• Saltvik (Finland)
• Götamål
• Sydsvenska mål

Swedish spoken in Finland

Only about one third of all Finland-Swedes live in monolingual territories.

Bilingual with Swedish minorities:

• Uusimaa (Nyland)
• Itä-Uusimaa (Öster-Nyland)
• Kymenlaakso (Kymmenedalen)
• Varsinais-Suomi (Egentliga Finland)

Bilingual with Swedish majority:

• Österbrotten

Unilingual Swedish:

• Åland

References

• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Quod Vide

• Schwedisch
• Swedish Phonology
• Nominalphrase im Schwedischen