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Swedish language takes its origins from Old Norse, belongs to the East Scandinavian language group that it rooted in Germanic languages. There are two more Scandinavian languages that Swedish language interfere with, those are Norwegian and Danish. 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 first refers to the language spoken on the Swedish territory in the Middle Ages. 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. "Rikssvenska" (or Standard Swedish), is the official language of Sweden. Swedish alphabet has 29 letters that has 26 letters of Latin origin and three letters that refer to Scandinavian group of languages : , , . The vocabulary mainly rooted in Germanic language traditions. Borrowings from German and English are quite common together with many French words that became part of the language in the 18th century. Both Swedish syntax and morphology resemble the ones of the 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. 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. 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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