Native Name: Swedish (Svenska)
Number of Speakers: 10 million
Official language of: Sweden, Finland, European Union
Script used: Latin (Swedish Variation)
Sample of Swedish
Swedish Translation, Typesetting, Websites, Voice-Overs and Subtitles
Adelphi Translations Ltd. work translating Swedish to English and English to Swedish. We also produce voice recordings and subtitles for video in Swedish as well as translation and localisation of web sites into Swedish. We are based in Sheffield, UK and handle language projects for local clients in commercial centres such as Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and London but also have many International clients from around the world.
Swedish website translation example by Adelphi Translations Ltd
Swedish is a North Germanic language with around 9 million speakers mainly in Sweden and Finland, and also in Estonia, Norway, Canada and the USA. It is closely related to Norwegian and Danish and is mutually intelligible with them to a large extent, particularly in its written form.The Swedish alphabet is a 29-letter alphabet, using the basic 26-letter Latin alphabet plus the three additional letters Å / å, Ä / ä, and Ö / ö constructed in the 16th century by writing “o” and “e” on top of an “a”, and an “e” on top of an “o”.
Swedish had never been officially declared the offical language of Sweden although in 2005 a bill was proposed that would have made Swedish an official language, but it failed to become law by the narrowest possible margin (a vote of 145–147). A proposal for a broader language law, designating Swedish as the main language of the country and bolstering the status of the minority languages, was submitted by an expert committee to the Swedish Ministry of Culture in 2008 and entered into effect on 1 July 2009.
