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| | Swedish language on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In 1786 the Swedish Academy was established to oversee the development of the language. |
 | | Swedish absorbed a number of words from Low German in the Middle Ages, from High German in the 16th and 17th cent., from French in the 18th cent., and from English in the 20th cent. |
 | | Until the early 13th cent., runes were used for recording Swedish, but thereafter (as Christianity took hold in Scandinavia) they began to be replaced by the Roman alphabet, to which three symbols, å, ä, and ö, have been added. |
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