LANGUAGES OF SWEDEN
For one reason or another the Swedish government has only officially recognized 5 minority languages: Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sami and Yiddish
The history of Sweden is complicated
The line between a language and a dialect is hard since many so called dialects in Sweden are hard for someone who only speaks Stockholm Swedish to understand
More info HERE
Ethnologue is a site that tries to list all the worlds languages but when it comes to Sweden it only lists ÖVDALIAN (ÄLVDALSKA, English: ELFDALIAN) as a language and not others like SKÅNSKA (SCANIAN), JAMTLANDIC (JAMSKA/JÄMTSKA) and so on
SKÅNSKA (SCANIAN) was removed as a language in 2009
See the list HERE
So lets take a look at some of the languages/dialects of Sweden found by going to the subpages in in the menu above the page in this category
More info HERE
Ethnologue is a site that tries to list all the worlds languages but when it comes to Sweden it only lists ÖVDALIAN (ÄLVDALSKA, English: ELFDALIAN) as a language and not others like SKÅNSKA (SCANIAN), JAMTLANDIC (JAMSKA/JÄMTSKA) and so on
SKÅNSKA (SCANIAN) was removed as a language in 2009
See the list HERE
So lets take a look at some of the languages/dialects of Sweden found by going to the subpages in in the menu above the page in this category