Native Swedish Speakers
You will get to know second language speakers of Swedish language as well as native Swedish Speakers under how many people speak Swedish language. There is an estimate that there are almost 8.70 million native speakers of Swedish language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. 5.00 million population speak Swedish as second language where Swedish is not the native language of the speaker. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Swedish are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.
Native name of Swedish
How many people speak Swedish serves you with native name of Swedish language. The native name of Swedish is Svenska. Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Swedish are Ruotsi, Svenska. The German and French names for Swedish language is as follows:
- French Name for Swedish: suédois.
- German Name for Swedish: Schwedisch.
In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Swedish on
Swedish Language Codes.