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Official language: None (Swedish de facto)


Demographics of Sweden

As of 2008, the total population of Sweden was estimated to be 9,234,209. The largest immigrant group living in Sweden as of 2008 consists of people born in Finland, followed by people born in Iraq, Former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Turkey, Poland, Romania, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Chile and Iran.

Sweden has also one of the largest exile communities of Assyrian and Syriac Christians (also known as Chaldeans) with a population of around 100,000. Södertälje, which has the largest group of Assyrians than any other cities in Europe, is home to 22,000 Assyrians, and 40,000 in Stockholm County. Some other cities with large Assyrian/Syriac population are Botkyrka, Västerås, Norrköping, Göteborg and Örebro.

Languages

The primary language of Sweden is Swedish, a North Germanic language, related and very similar to Danish and Norwegian, but differing in pronunciation and orthography. Although Swedish is the dominant language, it is not an official language. Sweden Finns are Sweden's largest linguistic minority, comprising about 3 percent of Sweden's population and Finnish is recognised as a minority language. Four other minority languages are also recognised (Meänkieli, Sami, Romani and Yiddish).

Swedish National Institutions for Language

Språkrådet – Language Council of Sweden
Lena Ekberg, Head of Department
Birgitta Lindgren, International Secretary
P.O. Box 20057, SE-104 60 Stockholm
Sweden
+46-8-442 42 01
+46-8-442 42 06
Lena.Ekberg@sprakradet.se
Birgitta.Lindgren@sprakradet.se

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