Swedish language

E16630

North Germanic language natural language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and parts of Finland, known for its close relation to Norwegian and Danish and its role as one of the official languages of the Nordic region.

Aliases (5)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	North Germanic language → natural language →
branch	North Germanic languages →
closelyRelatedTo	Danish language → Norwegian language →
developedFrom	Old Swedish →
family	Indo-European languages →
hasCaseSystem	largely analytic →
hasDefinitenessMarking	suffixed definite article →
hasDialect	Finland Swedish → Gotlandic dialect → Götaland dialects → Norrland dialects → Scanian dialect → Svealand dialects →
hasFeature	V2 word order in main clauses →
hasGrammaticalGender	common gender → neuter →
hasISO639-1Code	sv →
hasISO639-2Code	swe →
hasISO639-3Code	swe →
hasLetter	Ä → Å → Ö →
hasMajorDictionary	Svenska Akademiens ordbok → Svenska Akademiens ordlista →
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate	about 10 million →
hasPhonologicalFeature	pitch accent →
hasStandardForm	Standard Swedish →
hasStandardPronunciationBasedOn	Central Swedish dialects →
hasWordOrder	SVO →
historicalAncestor	Old Norse →
officialLanguageOf	Finland → Sweden →
partOf	Scandinavian languages →
primaryCountry	Sweden →
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn	Finland →
region	Nordic countries →
regulatingBody	Swedish Academy →
spokenIn	Finland → Sweden → Åland Islands →
statusInEU	official language of the European Union →
subfamily	Germanic languages →
usedAs	language of education in Sweden → language of government in Sweden → language of media in Sweden →
usesScript	Swedish alphabet →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (46)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Swedish Empire ("Swedish") → Swedish People’s Party of Finland ("Swedish") → Uusimaa ("Swedish") → Åland Islands ("Swedish") →	officialLanguage
Estonian language → Meänkieli → Wisconsin English →	influencedBy
Jönköping ("Swedish") → Riksdag ("Swedish") → Swedish Livonia ("Swedish") →	languageUsed
Central Swedish dialects → Finland Swedish → Scanian dialect →	partOf
Edvard ("Swedish") → Róbert ("Swedish") →	hasLanguageUsage
Dag ("Swedish") → Gunnar ("Swedish") →	languageOfUse
Swedes → Swedish Armed Forces ("Swedish") →	primaryLanguage
Scandinavian Canadians ("Swedish") →	ancestralLanguage
Norwegian language →	closelyRelatedTo
Old Gutnish ("Gotlandic dialects of Swedish") →	descendant
Old East Norse ("Swedish") →	developedInto
Finland Swedish ("Nyland Swedish") →	hasDialect
Wiktionary ("Swedish") →	hasEditionInLanguage
Finnish language →	hasHistoricalWritingInfluenceFrom
Gotland ("Swedish") →	hasLanguage
Nilsen →	hasLanguageOfOrigin
Joachim →	hasLanguageOfUse
Ostrobothnia ("Swedish") →	hasMajorityLanguage
Järvenpää ("Swedish") →	hasMinorityLanguage
Norwegian language →	hasMutualIntelligibilityWith
Swedish language ("Standard Swedish") →	hasStandardForm
North Germanic languages ("Swedish") →	includesLanguage
Old East Norse ("Modern Swedish") →	influenced
Central Swedish dialects ("Standard Swedish") →	influences
Elfdalian ("Swedish") →	isRelatedTo
Vyborg ("Swedish") →	languageHistoricallySpoken
Swedish krona ("Swedish") →	languageOfName
Finnish markka ("Swedish") →	languageOnBanknotes
Svenska Akademiens ordbok →	mainSubject
Scandinavia ("Swedish") →	majorLanguage
North Germanic languages ("Standard Swedish") →	majorModernStandard
Swedish-speaking Finns ("Swedish") →	nativeLanguage
Faroese language →	relatedTo
ISO/IEC 8859-1 ("Swedish") →	supportsLanguage