This map shows the regions
of the world where Swedish is commonly spoken (red circle).
Swedish is closely related to Danish,
and it descends from the North Germanic sub-branch of the Germanic
branch of Indo-European languages. Swedish is a bit more distantly
related to those modern languages that descended from Old Norse
(Icelandic, Norwegian,
and Faroese).
| Daniel M. Short originally created this
map and the other Indo-European language charts for his website at http://www.danshort.com/.
I reproduce these images here with the author's permission, but they are
copyrighted by Daniel Short as of 2002. These charts should not be reproduced
or reused without Mr. Short's approval. You may contact him at danshort@gte.net
for more information. These images are not public domain. |