swedish language

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Definition of swedish language in English English dictionary

National language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland, spoken by about nine million people. It belongs to the East Scandinavian group of the Germanic languages and is closely related to Norwegian and Danish. Its history from the Common Scandinavian period (600-1050) until 1225 is known chiefly from inscriptions in runic writing. Modern Swedish is usually dated from 1526, when a translation of the New Testament was first printed. The standard language began to emerge in the 17th century, based largely on the Svea dialects spoken in Stockholm. Swedish, like Norwegian, has two tonal word accents

{i} language (that belongs to the Scandinavian languages) which is spoken in Sweden and in parts of Finland

Hyphenation

Swed·ish lan·guage

Turkish pronunciation

swidîş länggwıc

Pronunciation

/ˈswēdəsʜ ˈlaɴɢgwəʤ/ /ˈswiːdɪʃ ˈlæŋɡwəʤ/