Language Information
Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by at least 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish. There is significant mutual intelligibility with Norwegian and Danish. Modern Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era.
Swedish is not currently offered locally at Indiana University, but can be taken through the BTAA CourseShare program.