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A descendant of Old Norse, Swedish belongs to the East Scandinavian group of languages, a subdivision of the North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages. Swedish is mutually intelligible with Danish (also a member of the East Scandinavian language group) and Norwegian (which belongs to the western Scandinavian language group). Swedish language is spoken by nine million people who found their homes mainly in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Estonia. Swedish is the official language of Sweden and second official langauge Finland, as well as in the small Estonian region - Noarootsi. The evolution of Swedish language can be divided in three periods : Old Swedish, New Swedish and Modern Swedish. It is stated that the language that was spoken on the Swedish territory in Medieval Ages refers to the first of three periods : Old Swedish. There few samples of the era that survived until our days, the most relevant one is the Västgötalagen, written around 1250. - Gustav Vasa's Bible is one of the first documents written in New (literary) Swedish and dates back to the 16th century. Intellectuals and writers caused Swedish language to overcome various changes, the industrial development and internalization have developed the becoming of Modern Swedish. The official language of Sweden is "Rikssvenska" (or Standard Swedish). Swedish uses a 29 letters alphabet, 26 of Latin origin and three specific letters: ö, ä, å. Swedish vocabulary belongs predominantly to German origins. German, English and French borrowings are common in Swedish and became a solid part of the modern language. Morphology and syntax of Swedish language resembles other Germanic languages. Swedish sentences tend to resemble the structure of other Germanic languages: verbs have five conjugations; nouns are inflected by numbers and divided into five declensions; the definite and indefinite cases are present as well; cardinal and ordinal numbers etc. If you can speak English or Germans as well as of the Scandinavian languages Swedish may seem easy and obvious to grasp. Swedish is a working language of the Nordic Council and one of the official languages of the European Union.

Considered one of the countries with the highest living standard, Sweden is famous for its worldwide appreciated industry represented by companies like Volvo, IKEA, Tetra Pak etc.

Ioana Mihailas is a linguist for Lingo24 document translation companies, a top provider of technical translation services in London.

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