Language code: 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.

Code

sv

Name

Official

Swedish

Native

Svenska

Family
Germanic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

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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

Speakers

9.5M

*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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