Swedish test results and subjects' own assessment of their Swedish competence

Official status Swedish is officially the main language of Sweden.

Swedish (mother tongue), English, German and French (in that order).

Swedish was the second official language until 1943.

In some of these areas, Swedish is the predominant language in 19 municipalities, 16 of which are located in Åland, Swedish is the sole official language.

In Swedish, vessels of the Swedish Navy are given the prefix HMS, short for Hans Hennes Majestäts Skepp (His Her Majesty's Ship).

The town is bilingual, with a majority (66.2 ) being Swedish and a minority (31 ) Finnish speakers.

Some Danish and Norwegian is at times also taught as part of Swedish courses for native speakers.

They may be considered either ethnic Swedes or Swedish speaking Finns, but their language is closer to the Uppländska dialect of Sweden than to Finland Swedish.

Swedish is the sole official language of Åland (an autonomous province under the sovereignty of Finland) where the vast majority of the 26,000 inhabitants speak Swedish as a first language.

The proportion has been steadily diminishing since the early 19th century, when Swedish was the mother tongue of approximately 15 of the population and considered a prestige language.

A difficult Swedish language test, of the type where normally middle class children do better than working class children, measured their Swedish competence.

The Swedish dialects in Finland are considered varieties of Swedish, and the norm for written Standard Swedish is completely applicable also for Finland Swedish.

The Swedish Air Force (Swedish Flygvapnet ) is the air force branch of the Swedish Armed Forces.

Since the 1980s, Swedish surface warships have been named after Swedish cities, while submarines are named after Swedish provinces and minehunters after Swedish lighthouses.

Do you speak Swedish?

I want to learn Swedish.

He wrote in the Swedish language.

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Swedish Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet ) (SLU) is a university in Sweden.

Westö writes in Swedish.

Sweden stated that a request, together with the appendices, should be translated into Swedish, Danish or Norwegian, unless the authority dealing with the application otherwise allows in the individual case .

World Water Council

During his rule, the Swedish church was reformed (1527).

Today only 2 are Swedish speaking.

He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts or Kungl.

Swedish Judiciary and Civil Service

National Council on Family Relations

(The unit of measure should not exceed one ten thousandth of the total military expenditures.

Program sponsored by Swedish Ministry of Justice.

This kind of influence of the first language on the second is known as negative language transfer.

(See Åland Swedish for information about the dialect.

This nomination has been endorsed by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Sponsored by Swedish Ministry of Justice. Certificate.

(ii) Sweden and the Rule of Law (in Swedish), Stockholm 2001

Language The official language of Jamaica is English.

The main language is colloquial Swahili, and the English language is extensively taught in schools.

Alice Petrén, from the Swedish Public radio moderated the discussion.

In 1998, the Swedish Armed Forces was again reorganized.

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1821.

Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the sociology of language focuses on language's effect on the society.

The 1977 Charter of the French Language established French as the official language of Quebec.

Latvian ( latviešu valoda ) is the official state language of Latvia.

This is a different language from Gagauz and Turkish.

Swedes are overwhelmingly secular and indifferent toward the Swedish church.