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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. Norwegian and Danish which are the languages of the sam Scandinavian group are closely related to Swedish. 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. If we look at the chronology of the evolution of Swedish language, we can distinguish three phases: 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. The most relevant sample of this language was found in a law code, Västgötalagen, written around 1250. The first document written in New Swedish that dates back to 16th century considers to be Gustav Vasa's Bible. Intellectuals and writers caused Swedish language to overcome various changes, the industrial development and internalization have developed the becoming of Modern Swedish. "Rikssvenska" (or Standard Swedish), is the official language of Sweden. It is used in media, officialdom and administration and it was created in accordance with the dialects spoken around Stockholm. Swedish uses a 29 letters alphabet, 26 of Latin origin and three specific letters: ö, ä, å. Its vocabulary is predominantly of Germanic origin. 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. There are five conjugations for Swedish verbs; nouns are more inflected by the number and divided into five declensions; indefinite and definite cases; adjectives agree with noun and pronouns; 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. The European Union and the Nordic Council consider Swedish as an official language and use it

as a working language. Sweden stands for the country with the highest living standard, famous for its worldwide famous companies such as IKEA, Volvo, 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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