Hej
'Hello' in Swedish
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Swedish
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SWE
Swedish, a North Germanic language, is spoken by about 10 million native speakers, primarily in Sweden and parts of Finland. It uses the Latin alphabet with additional characters like "å," "ä," and "ö." Known for its melodic pitch accent, Swedish grammar features two grammatical genders (common and neuter), a relatively simple case system, and verb conjugations that do not vary by person. Its vocabulary derives from Old Norse, with loanwords from German, French, and English. As an official language of Sweden and Finland, Swedish is central to Scandinavian culture, literature, and education, with mutual intelligibility with Norwegian and Danish.