The Local's regular panel grapples with Sweden's many dialects and tries to decide whether they should be classified as throat diseases or things of poetic beauty. Since I'm still new to the Swedish ...

Worldwide, the Asterix cartoons have been translated into more than 100 languages and dialects. Photo: AFP One of the comic book adventures of Asterix has been translated into a rare Swedish dialect - ...

The Scanian ('Skånska') dialect of southern Sweden has landed on Unesco's list of threatened languages, much to the exasperation of Swedish linguists. “There are neither linguistic nor practical ...

The Dialekt-o-maten took pride of place on the high-street of Stockholm and used voice recognition technology to detect whether the Swedes knew the regional nuances of their language. Acting on ...

SEVERAL months ago, I pointed to the long-known fact that what's a "dialect" and what's a "language" is more often political than it is linguistic. At the time I said that the different Scandinavian ...

SWEDEN’S government has been accused of attempting to “erase history like the Soviets” by introducing a new “standard” dialect in a bid to make the country “more inclusive” for migrants. The “new ...

Svenska dialektmysterier was a Swedish television series about Swedish dialects. It was hosted by Fredrik Lindström and produced by Marcos Hellberg and broadcast on SVT2 in January–March 2006. The ...