Languages Of Sweden
Swedish Language, Swedish is the official language of Sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10.23 million inhabitants of the country. It is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages, Danish language, Danish and Norwegian language, Norwegian, with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility and forms a Dialect continuum#North Germanic continuum, dialect continuum. A number of regional Swedish dialects are spoken across the country. In total, more than 200 languages are estimated to be spoken across the country, including regional languages, indigenous Sámi languages, and immigrant languages. In 2009, the Riksdag passed a national language law recognizing Swedish as the ''main'' and ''common'' language of society, as well as the official language for "international contexts". The law also confirmed the official status of the five ''national minority languages'' — Finnish language, Finnish, Meänkie ...
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