sv
Technical information about ISO 639 language code sv
The table below provides technical details for the Swedish language, designated by the sv
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Swedish belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Germanic subgroup. It is the official language of Sweden, and it is also used by Swedish minority communities in Finland and neighboring countries. It is written using the Latin script (Swedish alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 13 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Swedish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
sv-AX
– Swedish (Åland Islands)
sv-FI
– Swedish (Finland)
sv-SE
– Swedish (Sweden)
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