Swedish (About this sound svenska ) is a North Germanic language spoken by approximately 8.7 million people worldwide predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland where it has equal legal standing with Finnish. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish (see Classification). Along with the other North Germanic languages Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era.
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ISO 639-1 code
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ISO 639-2 code
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ISO 639-3 code
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family
Germanic languages, North Germanic languages
language regulator or academy
Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council, Institute for the Languages of Finland
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