Swedish Language Translation

World class Swedish language translation from qualified professional linguists

• Number of Swedish native speakers globally: 10 million
• Number of countries where Swedish is an official language: 2

With over 10 million native speakers across Sweden and parts of Finland, Swedish (svenska) is the largest of the North Germanic languages. It’s also an official language of the EU.

A descendant of Old Norse, Swedish belongs to the East Scandinavian class of languages along with Danish. Swedish is part of a language group often referred to as Nordic languages.

Modern Swedish is considered to have started with a Swedish translation of the New Testament, published in 1526. The contemporary Swedish of today can be divided into six main dialectal groups, with the Svea dialect spoken in Stockholm being the one that is most commonly used.

The Swedish Language Council — the Språkrådet — regulates the language by issuing spelling and grammatical recommendations. The organisation also publishes an annual list of new words.

Together with Danish and Norwegian, Swedish forms part of the trio of main Scandinavian languages. Whilst the three are fairly similar, only highly-skilled speakers of any of these three languages can understand each other.

At Alexika, we offer professional Swedish to English and English to Swedish translations, as well as other language combinations including Swedish. Our translators are industry experts covering a wide range of subject areas. We pride ourselves on providing prompt, professional and authentic Swedish translations.

If you’re looking to translate technical or legal documentation, communicating in Swedish can be crucial. With its extremely vibrant, highly-industrialised economy, talking in Swedish can be a lucrative business decision for those considering their overseas marketing, too.

Something to bear in mind: be flexible with the layout of your documents. When translating from Swedish into English, the text will typically expand by about 10% depending on the subject matter. In the other direction (English to Swedish), expect to see a contraction rate of 10%.