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	Swedish language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Swedish is a North Germanic language with around 9 million speakers in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Norway, Canada and the USA.
		One of the earliest uses of Swedish as a literary language was "Gustav Vasa's Bible", translated and published in 1540-1 under the patronage of King Gustav Vasa.
		The letter Q is not used in modern Swedish: it was eliminated in the 1906 spelling reform.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/swedish.htm (445 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Swedish language -
		Swedish is a one of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family.
		Swedish is the national (but not official) 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 official language of the small autonomous territory of the Åland Islands, under sovereignty of Finland, protected by international treaties and Finnish laws.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/sw/Swedish_(language) (1230 words)

	Learn more about Swedish language in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 native language of the Åland Islands, an autonomous province of Finland.
		Swedish is officially refered to as the second domestic language, or toinen kotimainen kieli in Finnish and since an educational reform in the 1970s Swedish has been a compulsory subject in Finnish schools, where it is mandatory in the final examinations.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sw/swedish_language.html (1581 words)

	Swedish language
		Swedish (svenska) is a language spoken principally in Sweden, Finland (finlandsvenska), Åland and in the coastland of Estonia (estlandssvenska).
		Swedish is classified as a member of the East section of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family.
		Swedish is the language of the Åland Islands, an autonomous province under the sovereignty of Finland.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Swedish_language (2032 words)

	Latin alphabet - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		The Latin alphabet spread from Italy, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
		In the late eighteenth century, the Romanians adopted the Latin alphabet; although Romanian is a Romance language, the Romanians were predominantly Orthodox Christians, and until the nineteenth century the Church used the Cyrillic alphabet.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /latin_alphabet.htm (2204 words)

	Finnish alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They occur in Swedish (or foreign) names, though.
		"Õ" and "Ő" are alphabetized as "Ö", not as "O".
		"ß" is alphabetized as (and usually replaced with) "ss".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_alphabet (476 words)

	Phrasebase - Swedish Language Facts And Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Northern Swedish is from northern Hälsingland and Jämtland and northwards.
		Eastern Swedish is in Finland, Estonia, and Gammalsvenskby, Ukraine.
		Swedish is the official language of the small autonomous territory of the Ŭand Islands, under sovereignty of Finland, protected by international treaties and Finnish laws.
	www.phrasebase.com /languages/index.php?cat=58 (1530 words)

	Encyclopedia: Swedish alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters—basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
		The main feature separating it from the Latin alphabet are the three additional vowels, "Å", "Ä" and "Ö;".
		Swedish language Å, or å, is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Walloon and Chamorro alphabets.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Swedish-alphabet (977 words)

	Swedish Grammar
		Swedish nouns are divided into declensions depending on their stem, how the plural is formed, and on their gender (which is either 'uter' or 'neuter').
		Swedish verbs fall into one of five conjugations, the first three of which are termed "weak", because of their having undergone reduction and loss of the older Germanic stem changes.
		Swedish verbs are not inflected by person or number (although they still used to be inflected by number as late as in the 1930:ies), but they are inflected by tense, mood, and voice.
	www.lysator.liu.se /language/Languages/Swedish/Grammar.html (6488 words)

	Nättidningen RÖTTER - för dig som släktforskar! (The Swedish Language)
		By Nils William Olsson, Ph.D., F.A.S.G. The Swedish language is a part and parcel of the Indo-European languages, stretching from India to Europe and through migration to the U.S., Canada, Mexico and South America.
		Thus the word for stone in Swedish and Danish is sten, whereas in Norwegian and Icelandic it is stein.
		Swedish has an alphabet which is very much like the English alphabet,with the notable exception that Swedish has three additional vowels, coming at the end of the alphabet — å, ä and ö.
	www.genealogi.se /sprakeng.htm (939 words)

	Swedish
		Swedish is the de-facto national language of Sweden, where it is spoken by close to 8 million people, although it does not have the status of an official language there.
		Swedish is one of the official languages of the European Union.
		Swedish has several prestige varieties that are associated with the cities of Stockholm/Uppsala, Lund, Gothenburg, and Helsinki.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/Swedish.html (274 words)

	Introduction to Swedish - A guide to pronounciation
		The Swedish language has some unusual sounds and the pronunciation is on the whole not as regular as one might wish, but you do not have to master all the peculiarities of this noble tongue to be able to communicate, to understand or to make yourself understood.
		Spoken Swedish comprises a broad variety of pronounciations, of which some are definitely very strange, and you would have to work hard to come up with a variant that the average Swede would not be able to interpret.
		The Swedish words in this introduction have been marked with accent signs (no distinction has been made between acute and grave accents), to show which syllable should be more stressed than the others, and long vowels have been underlined.
	www2.hhs.se /isa/swedish/chap9.htm (882 words)

	Swedish - Language Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The definite article in Swedish is a suffix, while the indefinite article is a separate word preceding the noun.
		It is the standard twenty-six-letter Latin alphabet with the exception of 'W', plus the three additional letters Å / å, Ä / ä, and Ö / ö.
		The Swedish government partly subsidizes Svenska Dagbladet, but the paper is considered independent and remains the strongest voice of conservatism in a liberal political environment.
	www.geocities.com /language_directory/languages/swedish.htm (729 words)

	Swedish at the University of Kansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swedish is the most widely spoken of the Scandinavian languages, which constitute a branch of the Germanic languages, in turn a part of the Indo-European family.
		Swedish is closely related to Norwegian and Danish.
		The Swedish alphabet consists of twenty-nine letters, the regular twenty-six of the English alphabet, plus å, ä, and ö at the end.
	www.ku.edu /~swedish (302 words)

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		In the Swedish alphabet, "Å" is sorted immediately after "Z", as the third letter from the end.
		In the Finnish alphabet, the letter is treated just as in Swedish, but its usage is limited to Swedish names.
		In the Norwegian, Danish and Swedish languages, å is even an entire word, meaning a rivulet, a stream or a small river, like the rivers Aa, Au and Aue on the European continent.
	www.theezine.net /a/a-1.html (409 words)

	Learn Swedish Language - Free Conversational Swedish Lessons Online - Common Swedish Words and Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
		The Phrasebase website is the ultimate environment allowing you to read an Swedish Alphabet based phonetic spelling of common and useful everyday phrases in effort to memorize it and it's meaning.
		Swedish Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
	www.phrasebase.com /learn/swedish.php (1872 words)

	The Swedish Writing System
		The W is not included in the Swedish alphabet, since it is considered another variation of V; however, the W can still show up in proper names.
		Unlike Danish and Norwegian, Swedish has maintained the Ã/Ã¥ character since the Middle Ages when its runic alphabet was replaced with the Latin alphabet (Danish and Norwegian reintroduced the character into their alphabets in the Twentieth Century).
		In the Danish and Norwegian alphabets, âÃâ is the equivalentâ.
	www.globalisationpartners.com /Translation_Services/Swedish/HTML/The_Swedish_Writing_System.html (200 words)

	Swedish words and phrases and Swedish translations
		Swedish is the official and most common language in Sweden.
		The Swedish alphabet consists of twenty-nine letters, the regular twenty-six of the English alphabet, plus å (Å), ä (Ä), and ö (Ö).
		Swedish is closely related to 3 of the other Scandinavian languages – Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian, though is significantly different from Finnish.
	www.earthyfamily.com /S-words.htm (151 words)

	Swedish Language, Alphabet, Grammar, Pronunciation, Learn to Speak Swedish Software
		From Swedish vocabulary and Swedish grammar to conversational Swedish and correct Swedish pronunciation, this special site dedicated to the Swedish language includes information about language, culture, and Swedish software products to help you satisfy your curiosity about all things Swedish.
		Swedish Before You Know It Lite will help you learn Swedish words and phrases incredibly fast with perfect recall.
		If you have comments about this Swedish language learning site, Swedish software, or ways to learn Swedish, please contact us.
	www.learn-swedish-language-software.com (465 words)

	Swedish alphabet - UniLang Wiki
		Today, almost everything is written with the Latin alphabet, but the Runic alphabets dominated thousand years ago and lived on till quite recent times (a hundred years or two ago).
		In most alphabetic listings and are sorted together, with coming before if the words otherwise are identical.
		The, more or less, official alphabetic order in Swedish might change with the new edition of SAOL (Svenska akademiens ordlista ‘wordlist of the Swedish Academy’), for more information see this link: http://www.språknämnden.se/aktuellt/dubbel-v.htm (http://www.språknämnden.se/aktuellt/dubbel-v.htm) (in Swedish).
	home.unilang.org /main/wiki2/wiki.phtml?title=Swedish_alphabet (296 words)

	Overview of the Swedish Language to Help You Learn Swedish
		The Swedish language is also spoken by groups in the United States, ever since nineteenth-century immigrants brought the language with them to Minnesota.
		Swedish is not the only language of Sweden, however-- the 15,000 Laplanders who herd reindeer in the north speak their own language (Sami), and there is a population of Finnish-speaking Swedes along the Finnish border.
		Modern Swedish is considered to begin with a Swedish translation of the Bible published in 1526.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/swedish/overview.htm (513 words)

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		The letter "Å" is often perceived as an "A" with a ring, interpreting the ring as a diacritic mark.
		Although it was abandoned in Danish and Norwegian due to German influence, it has been retained in Swedish.
		The letter "Å" is also used throughout the world as the international symbol for the non-SI unit angstrom, or ångström, a physical unit of length named after the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström.
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/aa/a_1.html (932 words)

	Coverage of European languages by ISO Latin alphabets
		Note VI (Irish Gaelic): Latin alphabets No. 5, 6, and 9 are not suitable for Irish Gaelic when the old orthography is used.
		However, alphabet 7 was developed to cover the needs of Latin-alphabet languages spoken in countries bordering the Baltic Sea ("Baltic Rim"), and Polish is explicitly mentioned among those languages in the definition of alphabet 7 (i.e.
		Latin alphabets No. 4 and 6 cover the requirements of most Sámi orthographies, but for Skolt Sámi no ISO Latin alphabet is sufficient.
	www.indwes.edu /Faculty/bcupp/things/Characters/8859.html (849 words)

	.MUSEUM Swedish Character Table
		It is not to be taken as a normative statement about the use of the Swedish language in any other context.
		This table conforms to current Swedish orthographic practice as described by the Swedish Language Council in the publication "Svenska språkregler", 2nd edition, 2000 (2003 printing), and the lexicographic practice documented by the Swedish Academy in the publication "Svenska akademiens ordlista över svenska språket", 12th edition, seventh printing, 2002.
		Swedish belongs to the European language group and the base characters listed below may be available for use as foreign letters in other languages in that group if permitted in their respective character tables.
	www.iana.org /assignments/idn/museum-swedish.html (663 words)

	Å Details, Meaning Å Article and Explanation Guide
		"Å", or "å", is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Walloon and Chamorro alphabets.
		Although it was abandoned in Danish and Norwegian due to German influence, it was retained in Swedish.
		In the Norwegian, Danish and Swedish languages, å is even a word all in itself, meaning a rivulet, a stream or a small river, like the rivers Aa, Au and Aue on the European continent.
	www.e-paranoids.com /a/aa/a_1.html (655 words)

	The Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Most of these transcripts are written with an unique phonetic alphabet, the Swedish dialect alphabet, specially designed in 1878 by Professor J. Lundell of Uppsala.
		This subproject involves the documentation of the phonetic values of all the characters of the Swedish dialect alphabet and including these characters in the ISO 10646/Unicode character code standard.
		At the top, a transcript written with the Swedish dialect alphabet; in the middle, the same text automatically converted to IPA characters; at the bottom, the same text automatically converted to Swedish ‘phonetic spelling’.
	hem.passagen.se /tornq/rjeng.htm (420 words)

	Have you found a Swedish ancestor?
		To know the Swedish parish where he/she was born is necessary.
		Also, many Swedish immigrants changed their names in USA so it would be easier to pronounce or to become more "Americanized".
		Swedish Genealogical Dictionary, Compiled by Phyllis J. Pladsen and Joseph C. Huber, 1995, Pladsen Sveria Press.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Meadows/7095/swede.html (906 words)

	Finnish & Swedish Alphabet
		W is not used in modern Finnish or Swedish.
		If a name in Finnish or Swedish is preceeded by a prefix (von, af, von der, etc.) it will always be sorted according to the main part of the name.
		This is a FAQ file from the The Genealogical Society of Finland on Finnish genealogy.
	www.genealogia.fi /faq/faq013e.htm (200 words)

	Swedish Language Information - Swedish alphabet, Swedish grammar, Swedish pronunciation rules and more.
		Swedish Language Information - Swedish alphabet, Swedish grammar, Swedish pronunciation rules and more.
		Here you can get information on Swedish language.
		It contains main Swedish language features, such as Swedish alphabet, Swedish pronunciation rules, Swedish grammar and more.
	www.lingvozone.com /Swedish (55 words)

	Swedish to English
		The Swedish alphabet has 29 letters, and the English alphabet has 26.
		Smultron is Swedish for wild strawberries, but this is not enough.
		All of this talk of "v" and "w" pronunciations brought to mind a song my Swedish Grandfather, who immigrated to America, taught me. I have written it as it was pronounced in English.
	longstrom.com /swedishtoenglish.htm (3926 words)

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