Languages of Sweden
Swedish is the official language of Sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10 million inhabitants of the country. It is a North Germanic language and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian, with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility and forming a dialect continuum. Five "national minority languages" are also recognized by Swedish law: Finnish, Yiddish, Meänkieli, Romani and Sami.
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.).