Languages of Sweden
The Kingdom of Sweden is a nation-state for the Swedish people, and as such, their national language is held in very high regard. Of Sweden's roughly ten million people, almost all speak Swedish as at least a second language, and the majority as a first language (7,825,000, according to SIL's Ethnologue). Swedish is also an official language in Finland where it is spoken by a large number of Swedish-speaking Finns. The language is also spoken to some degree by ethnic Swedes living outside Sweden, for example, just over half a million people of Swedish descent in the United States speak the language, according to Ethnologue.
Name of Sweden
Outside of Dutch (Zweden), German (Schweden) and English, the name "Sweden" has also been adopted in Welsh. The English form in "-n" has also influenced a number of non-European languages, including Yoruba "Swídìn" and the Chinese rendition 瑞典 (pinyin "Ruìdiǎn"), and via the Chinese Hanzi spelling various other languages in the larger Sinosphere (such as Vietnamese "Thụy Điển", Southern Min "Sūi-tián", etc.).