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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. Sweden is an official language in Sweden and Finland, as well as in a small region of Estonia - 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. The language that was spoken on the territory of Medieval Sweden refers to the Old Swedish. The law code Västgötalagen, written around 1250 considers to be the most relevant example of that period. - Gustav Vasa's Bible is one of the first documents written in New (literary) Swedish and dates back to the 16th century. The language spoken by the Swedes today became Modern Swedish that has been influenced by various changes, industrial development and internalization. Nowadays "Rikssvenska" or Standard Swedish has becom 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 alphabet has 29 letters that has 26 letters of Latin origin and three letters that refer to Scandinavian group of languages : , , . Swedish vocabulary belongs predominantly to German origins. Borrowings from German and English are quite common together with many French words that became part of the language in the 18th century. Morphology and syntax of Swedish language resembles other Germanic languages. Swedish verbs fall into five conjugations; the nouns are divided into five declensions and are inflected according to number, case and definiteness; the adjectives agree with the nouns and pronouns; the number words are cardinals and ordinals etc. No matter how difficult it might look, Swedish proves to be as easy language to learn for those whose first or second language is English or German and of course for the neighbor countries of Sweden.

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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