Language code: sv
Technical information about ISO 639 language code sv
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The table below provides technical details for the Swedish language, designated by the sv code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Swedish Native Svenska |
| Family | Germanic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Norrland dialectsSvealand dialectsGötaland dialectsGotlandicFinland Swedish (East Swedish dialects) |
| Related languages | DanishNorwegianIcelandicFaroese |
| Key facts | Uses three additional letters in its alphabet: Å, Ä and ÖEmploys two contrasting pitch accents that can change word meaningIntroduced the gender-neutral pronoun “hen,” now common in formal writingRetains only two grammatical genders after merging the historical masculine and feminineThe 1541 Gustav Vasa Bible greatly influenced the standardization of modern Swedish |
| Sample phrase | Hej, hur mår du? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-10, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, CP 437, CP 865, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
| Supported in Localizely |
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.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Swedish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
sv-AX – Swedish (Åland Islands)
sv-FI – Swedish (Finland)
sv-SE – Swedish (Sweden)
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- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ