"the tje-sound") is generally, but some speakers who have įor the sje-sound have for the tje-sound. In southern Swedern it is ,īut in the north of Sweden it is (and it thus falls together with The pronunciation of sj/sch/sk/skj/stj (known as "the sje-sound").In northern and mid-Sweden while the pronunciation on the right is used in r, rd, rg, rl, rn, rs and rt: the pronunciation on the left is used.sk = before e, i, y, ä or ö, elsewhere.gn = at the beginning of words, elsewhere.ch = is pronounced in the word och (and), or not pronounced at all.
W and Z are used in loanwords and proper names. The spelling was reformed in 1906, and that reform was only fully supported by the Swedish Academy in 1950. His proposal was publish in 1801, and finally adopted by the Academy in 1874. Modern Swedish spelling rules were created by the author Carl Gustaf af Leopold, who was commissioned to do so by the Swedish Academy ( Svenska Akademien). For example, the letters ä and ö were used in place of æ and ø, and å replaced o in many words. It helped to establish a consistent orthography for Swedish, although the spelling used in the translation was not completely consistent. The translation of the Bible into Swedish in 1526 is seen as marking the beginning of modern Swedish. During this time Swedish borrowed many words from Latin, Low German and Dutch. It had undergone much grammatical simplification and a vowel shift, and by the 16th century it had more in common with modern Swedish. It was grammatically much more complex than modern Swedish.īetween 13 the language of Sweden was known as Late Old Swedish ( yngre fornsvenska). The language of this text is known as Early Old Swedish klassisk fornsvenska or äldre fornsvenska), which was used until about 1375.
SPELLING ALPHABET WITH NAMES CODE
The Westrogothic law ( Äldre Västgötalagen), the code of law used in the province of West Gothland ( Västergötland). Swedish first appeared in the Latin alphabet in 1225 in The two languages began to diverge during the 12th century. It differed only slightly from the Old East Norse dialect of Denmark, or Runic Danish. Only a few people in Estonia still speak Swedish today.īetween 8 AD, a dialect of Old East Norse knownĪs Runic Swedish was spoken in Sweden. During World War II other Swedish-speakers fled from Estonia to Sweden. They set up a village there known as Gammölsvänskbi (Old Swedish Village), which is now part of Zmiivka ( Зміївка). About a thousand of those Swedes migrated to southern Ukraine after Estonia became part of the Russian Empire in the 18th century. There used to be Swedish-speaking communities in Estonia ( Estland).
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