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The Swedish alphabet (Swedish: Svenska alfabetet) is a basic element of the Latin writing system used for the Swedish language.The 29 letters of this alphabet are the modern 26-letter basic Latin alphabet ( a to z ) plus å , ä , and ö , in that order.
[5] [a] User-end support was quite poor for a number of years, but fonts, browsers, [b] word processors, [c] desktop publishing software [d] and others increasingly support the intended Unicode behavior. A selection of supporting fonts is displayed in the table below.
The goal was that Swedish and the Norwegian-Danish spelling of that time should become closer. Foremost in the discussion was whether f and fv should be exchanged for v indicating . For Swedish in particular, Artur Hazelius published in 1870–71 the work Om svensk rättstafning (On Correct Swedish Spelling). It put forth that the guiding ...
The difference between the Dano-Norwegian and the Swedish alphabet is that Swedish uses the variant ä instead of æ , and the variant ö instead of ø , similarly to German. Also, the collating order for these three letters is different in Swedish: Å, Ä, Ö.
Third-party applications offer fonts, mostly sans-serif decorative fonts not suitable for text, in the form of alternative keyboards. These programs resemble a TSR Terminate and Stay Resident program under MS-DOS: one runs the program to install the font/keyboard, then exits the program. Keyboards installed are selected by the globe to the left ...
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Swedish has a large vowel inventory, with nine vowels distinguished in quality and to some degree in quantity, making 18 vowel phonemes in most dialects. Another notable feature is the pitch accent, a development which it shares with Norwegian. Swedish pronunciation of most consonants is similar to that of other Germanic languages.
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