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Swedish (endonym: svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland. [2] It has at least 10 million native speakers, making it the fourth most spoken Germanic language, and the first among its type in the Nordic countries overall.
Pages in category "Countries and territories where Swedish is an official language" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.
Approximately 20 million people in the Nordic countries speak a Scandinavian language as their native language, [4] including an approximately 5% minority in Finland. Besides being the only North Germanic language with official status in two separate sovereign states, Swedish is also the most spoken of the languages overall. 15% of the ...
The Swedish-speaking population of Finland comprises about 5.5% of the population, mostly in Svenskfinland. Municipalities are bilingual if the Swedish or Finnish minority is at least 6–8%. [citation needed] Åland is monolingually Swedish by law. Sami is an official language (besides Finnish) in the municipalities of northern Finland.
These languages are taught in school throughout the Nordic countries: for example, Swedish is a mandatory subject in Finnish schools, and Danish is mandatory in Faroese schools. Approximately 5,3 per cent of population of Finland speak Swedish as their mother tongue. [120]
The language is also spoken to some degree by ethnic Swedes living outside Sweden; for example, 48,500 people of Swedish descent in the United States speak the language, according to Ethnologue. [8] The Language Law of 2009 recognizes Swedish as the main and common language of society, as well as being the official language in "international ...