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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.
The Swedish Dialect Alphabet (Swedish: Landsmålsalfabetet) is a phonetic alphabet created in 1878 by Johan August Lundell and used for the narrow transcription of Swedish dialects. The initial version of the alphabet consisted of 89 letters, 42 of which came from the phonetic alphabet proposed by Carl Jakob Sundevall . [ 1 ]
The keyboard layout is now indentical the Swedish keyboard layout as printed and as it is on Windows. 16:12, 1 September 2006: 900 × 300 (147 KB) StuartBrady: Swap § and ½. Colour deadkeys red. 16:12, 1 August 2006: 900 × 300 (147 KB) StuartBrady: 16:09, 1 August 2006: 900 × 300 (147 KB) StuartBrady: Swedish keyboard layout.
[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 earliest known copy of Västgötalagen, or the Westrogothic law. Written in the 1280s, it is one of the earliest examples of Swedish written with the Latin alphabet. Bridget of Sweden with manuscripts. One of the earliest Swedish manuscripts is Västgötalagen, fragments of which exist from 1250.
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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.
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.