Languages of Sweden

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Languages of Sweden
Sign at a library in Swedish and Southern Sami
Official	Swedish
Indigenous	(Officially recognised) Sámi languages, Swedish.
Regional	(Unofficial languages / Dialects) South Swedish, Götamål, Svealand Swedish, Norrland, and Gutnish, among others.
Minority	(Officially recognised) Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Yiddish
Immigrant	Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Kurdish, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Somali[1]
Foreign	English (89%) German (30%) French (11%)
Signed	Swedish Sign Language
Keyboard layout	Swedish QWERTY for Windows
Source	ebs_243_en.pdf (europa.eu)

Swedish is the official language of Sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10.23 million inhabitants of the country. It is a North Germanic language and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian, with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility and forms a dialect continuum. A number of regional Swedish dialects are spoken across the country. In total, more than 200 languages are estimated to be spoken across the country, including regional languages, indigenous Sámi languages, and immigrant languages.^[2]

In 2009, the Riksdag passed a national language law recognizing Swedish as the main and common language of society, as well as the official language for "international contexts". The law also confirmed the official status of the five national minority languages — Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sámi languages and Yiddish — and Swedish Sign Language.