What language is mostly spoken in Sweden?
Q: What language is mostly spoken in Sweden?
A: Swedish (svenska) is the language mostly spoken in Sweden.
Q: How many people speak Swedish?
A: More than nine million people speak Swedish.
Q: Can a person who speaks one Scandinavian language understand the others?
A: Yes, a person who understands one of the other Scandinavian languages, such as Norwegian and Danish, can understand the others.
Q: Are there any local dialects of Swedish?
A: Yes, there are some local dialects with differences in grammar and vocabulary in small towns and rural areas.
Q: What is the origin of Swedish?
A: Swedish began as a dialect of Old Norse, which was a language that everyone in Scandinavia understood during the Viking Age. Around the 12th century it slowly became different from other dialects.
Q: Are there any characters used in Swedish that are not used in English?
A: Yes, there are three characters used in Swedish that are not used in English - å, ä and ö.
Q: What grammatical gender does Swedish use?
A: In addition to Common and Neuter genders, which differ from English grammar rules, nouns also have definite articles suffixed onto their ends for further distinction between them.
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