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Swedish Sign Language
Native to	Sweden
Native speakers	8,000 deaf users; also, their children (date missing)^[1]
Language family	? British Sign Swedish Sign Swedish Sign Language
Writing system	SignWriting^[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`swl`

Swedish Sign Language (Svenskt teckenspråk or STS) is the sign language used in Sweden.

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Variants	Standard Swedish Finland Swedish Åland Swedish

Dialects	Gotländska mål Götamål Norrländska mål: Kirunamål Jämtska Kalixmål Westrobothnian Östsvenska mål: Ostrobothnian Estonian Swedish Sveamål: Stockholmska Rinkebysvenska Uppländska Gnällbältet Sydsvenska mål: Skånska Småländska

Use	Alphabet Å Ä Ö Orthography Grammar Phonology (sj-sound)

History	Proto-Norse Old Norse Old Swedish Modern Swedish Contemporary Swedish

Literature	Early Reformation and Renaissance Enlightenment Romantic Realism Modernist Modernist poetry Children's

Regulators	Swedish Language Council Institute for the Languages of Finland

Dictionaries	Svenska Akademiens Ordbok Svenska Akademiens Ordlista

Education	Swedish as a foreign language Mandatory Swedish

Related topics	Swenglish Svorsk Swedish Sign Language

Sign language

By region^[a]

Sign languages by region

Australia	Australia: Auslan, Warlpiri, Australian Aboriginal Hawaii New Zealand Solomon Islands: Rennellese

Asia	Chinese Philippine Indonesia: Indonesian, Kata Kolok (Benkala, Balinese) Indo-Pakistani Israel: Al-Sayyid Bedouin, Israeli Japanese Korean Malaysia: Malaysian, Penang, Selangor Mongolian Nepal: Ghandruk, Jhankot, Jumla, Nepalese Persian Saudi Arabia: Saudi Singapore Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thailand: Ban Khor, Thai Vietnamese

Africa	Algerian Ghana: Adamorobe Kenyan Mali: Tebul Nigeria: Bura, Hausa Senegal: Mbour South African Tanzanian Ugandan Zambian

Europe	Armenian Austrian Belgium: Flemish, French Belgian British Croatian Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish France: Lyons, French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Kosovar Lithuanian Macedonian Northern Ireland Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Slovenian Spain: Catalan, Spanish, Valencian Swedish Swiss Turkish

North America	Canada: Maritime, Providence Island, Quebec, Inuit Mexico: Mayan, Mexican, Tijuana United States: American, Plains Indian, Plateau

South America	Argentine Bolivian Brasil: Brazilian, Ka'apor Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Guatemalan: Guatemalan, Mayan Honduras Nicaraguan Peruvian Salvadoran Venezuelan

International	BANZSL International Sign (Gestuno) Makaton Monastic

Language families^[a]

Australian Aboriginal (List)
British (List)
Danish (List)
French (List)
German (List)
Japanese (List)
Swedish (List)
Arab (List)
Isolates (List)

American Sign Language

Extinct sign languages

Linguistics

Fingerspelling

Writing

Language contact

Media

Persons

Organisations

Miscellaneous

^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French.

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