Swedish in Sweden

Speakers

10,100,000

Type

Location

Swedish in Sweden

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Swedish in Sweden

Size

10,100,000

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

Digital
Yes

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban

Size / Number of users

Number of users

10100000
Source
census
Year
2017

Users within total population

100 % use the language

Users within the reference community

100 % use the language

Age distribution of users

6,300,000
62
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2017

Age distribution of users

1,800,000
18
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2017

Age distribution of users

2,000,000
20
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2017

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

No education
Early childhood education
53
47
320,000
Primary education
57
43
960,000
Lower secondary education
54
46
3,170,000
Higher secondary education
45
55
2,690,000
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

45
55
235,500
Elementary occupations
84
16
296,900
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
94
6
392,900
Craft and related trades workers
69
31
33,900
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
30
70
963,300
Services and sales workers
38
62
353,400
Clerical support workers
59
41
578,000
Technicians and associate professionals
40
60
1,023,800
Professionals
62
38
287,900
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

(Almost) 100 % of users with literacy in the language

Digital use

(Almost) 100 % digital users of the language

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion