Languages of Sweden
In 2009, the Riksdag passed the Language Law recognizing Swedish as the "main" and "common" language of society as well as being the official language in "international contexts", the five national minority languages, and Swedish sign language .
Swedes (Germanic tribe)
In modern North Germanic languages, the adjectival form "svensk" and its plural "svenskar" have replaced the name "svear" and is, today, used to denote all the citizens of Sweden. The distinction between the tribal Swedes ("svear") and modern Swedes ("svenskar") appears to have been in effect by the early 20th century, when "Nordisk familjebok" noted that "svenskar" had almost replaced "svear" as a name for the Swedish people. Although this distinction is convention in modern Norwegian, Danish and Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese do not distinguish between "svíar" (Icelandic) or "sviar" (Faroese) and "sænskir" (Icelandic) or "svenskarar" (Faroese) as words for modern Swedes.