Elfdalian (Övdalian or Älvdalska) may sound like the stuff of J.R.R Tolkien, but it is actually a North Germanic tongue spoken by around 3,000 people in the Älvdalen area of Dalarna County, western ...

Justice Minister Morgan Johansson, right, and former supreme administrative court justice Mari Andersson who led the inquiry. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT People applying for Swedish citizenship should be ...

Google recently got into a row with the Swedish Language Council over a new word in its official language: "ogooglebar" which means "ungoogleable." Google complained about the word, which the council ...

Officially, Sweden doesn’t keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself ...

Arabic is set to become the second largest first language in Sweden, with Finnish being overtaken for the first time in history. Finnish has been the most commonly spoken non-Swedish mother tongue for ...

KIRUNA, Sweden -- The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country's main language. But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to ...