Swedish/Svenska

About the Swedish Langauge (from omniglot.com):

"Swedish is a North Germanic language with around 9 million speakers in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Norway, Canada and the USA.

Finland was ruled by Sweden from the 12th century until 1809 and during that period, Swedish was the main language of government and education there. Today Finnish and Swedish have equal status as official languages in Finland.

The first known written language of Scandinavia was Old Norse or the..."

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