ISO 639-3 · sweswe
East Scandinavian family
Swedish
svenska
Swedish is a language of the East Scandinavian branch, spoken in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Wikidata counts 9.2 m first-language speakers (2012) and 3.1 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
swe- ISO 639-1
sv- Glottocode
swed1254- Family
- East Scandinavian
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 60.00, 16.00
- Wikipedia
- 253 language editions
9.2 mfirst-language speakers
3.1 msecond-language speakers
3countries
2scripts
1levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Swedish · svenska |
|---|---|
| Also called | Swedish language, Svenska, swed1254 |
| L1 speakers | 9,244,250 (2012) |
| L2 speakers | 3,118,000 (2012) |
| Written in | Latin script, Swedish alphabet |
| Official in | Finland, Sweden |
| Grammatical cases | 2 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From East Scandinavian to Swedish
The branches above Swedish, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
4East ScandinavianfamilysweSwedishlanguage
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Finland
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