Svenska, as the Swedes call their
language, is spoken by the approximately 8 million
inhabitants of Sweden, as well as another 300,000
people in Finland. It belongs to the North Germanic
sub-group of the Indo-European language family (English
is in the West Germanic sub-group), which includes
Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It is
extremely similar to Danish and Norwegian, especially
in written form. Its grammar and syntax are very
similar to English, more so than German or French.
Many Swedish words are easily recognizable by English
speakers, and even more so by German speakers
