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  Swedish language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Swedish is a language spoken principally in Sweden, Finland, and Åland.
Swedish is the national language of Sweden, mother tongue for the Sweden-born inhabitants (7,881,000) and acquired by nearly all immigrants (1,028,000) (figures according to official statistics for 2001).
Swedish is the language of the Åland Islands, an autonomous province under the sovereignty of Finland.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/swedish_language   (2032 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Swedish-language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Standard Swedish is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century and was well-established by the beginning of the 20th century.
Swedish is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages.
Swedish is the sole official language of Åland, an autonomous province under the sovereignty of Finland, where 95% of the 26,000 inhabitants speak Swedish as a first language.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Swedish_language   (10395 words)

  
 Swedish Language Council -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Swedish Language Council (Svenska språknämnden) is the primary (additional info and facts about regulatory body) regulatory body for the advancement and cultivation of the (additional info and facts about Swedish language) Swedish language.
The council is partially funded by the (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland) Swedish government and has semi-official status.
The government also assured the future of the council by guaranteeing the financing of four permanent staff members; a figure which today has grown and is no longer limited to a certain number of members, but by the actual needs of the council.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Sw/Swedish_Language_Council.htm   (360 words)

  
 Swedish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Swedish nouns and adjectives are declined in two genders and two cases, as well as number.
Swedish nouns belong to one of two genders: uter (also common gender) or neuter, which also determine the declensions of adjectives.
Swedish pronouns are basically the same as those of English but distinguish four genders and have an additional object form, derived from the old dative form.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swedish_language   (5688 words)

  
 Chinese language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: Hànyǔ, Huáyǔ, or Zhōngwén) is a tonal language and a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
The Chinese language, spoken in the form of Standard Mandarin, is the official language of the People's Republic of China in mainland China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore, and one of six official languages of the United Nations.
Old Chinese (上古漢語), sometimes known as 'Archaic Chinese', was the language common during the early and middle Zhou Dynasty (11th to 7th centuries B.C.), texts of which include inscriptions on bronze artifacts, the poetry of the Shijing, the history of the Shujing, and portions of the Yijing (I Ching).
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 Draft Action Programme for the Promotion of the Swedish Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Swedish is a well-established and well-standardized language, with a strong, linguistically mediated culture in Sweden.
Of the world total of perhaps 5,000 languages, Swedish is among the top 50 – 60 in terms of the strength of its position, in that it is fully standardized, used for a wide range of purposes, and spoken and written as a mother tongue by a large number of people.
The Swedish language and its maintenance and development are a national, societal concern, and it seems not unreasonable for the main burden of the cost to be met from the public purse.
www.spraknamnden.se /arkiv/handleng.htm   (9204 words)

  
 Swedish language
It is the official language of Sweden and one of the official languages of Finland, and it is spoken by about 9 million people: 8,500,000 in Sweden and 500,000 elsewhere, chiefly in Finland, Norway, and Estonia.
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.
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 Swedish Language Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
"Language care") since 1965, which publishes articles about the use and development of the Swedish language, readers' answers about spelling and grammar as well as providing guidelines for the use of Swedish in various contexts.
On March 3, 1944 a group of 16 organizations held the first constituent assembly for what was then called Nämnden för svensk språkvård ("The Committee for Swedish Language Cultivation").
Since the government assumed the responsibility for the financing, it also has the right to appoint the chairman and the head of the secretariat.
www.enviromagination.com /wiki/Swedish_Language_Council   (431 words)

  
 Welcome to The Swedish Language Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Swedish Language Council (Svenska språknämnden) is the primary institution for language cultivation in Sweden.
The Council comprises organisations interested in the Swedish language, among others the Swedish Academy, the Swedish Broadcasting Company, and associations of writers, journalists, translators and teachers.
The Language Council is a semi-official body, dependent on an annual subsidy from the Government, but also on income from sales of its publications.
www.spraknamnden.se /andrasprak/english.htm   (411 words)

  
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 Flat roofs, a selected bibliography, 1949-1963 with notes (Foreign language series / National Swedish Council for ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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