Swedish

WALS coordinates: 60° N, 15° E

spoken in Finland, Sweden

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Swedish
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
14A Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-oriented: One of the last three Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel or coda consonant Phonology
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17A Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite affix Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one' Nominal Categories
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41A Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast Nominal Categories
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42A Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical Nominal Categories
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns Binary politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Special Nominal Categories
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47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases 2 cases Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes Nominal Categories
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62A Action Nominal Constructions Other Nominal Syntax
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63A Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with' Nominal Syntax
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense No inflectional future Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect From possessive Verbal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal Categories
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74A Situational Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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76A Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Overlap for both possibility and necessity Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Mixed Verbal Categories
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79A Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect Tense Verbal Categories
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79B Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) Verbal Categories
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80A Verbal Number and Suppletion None Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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115A Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Mixed behaviour Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative word order Simple Clauses
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117A Predicative Possession 'Have' Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Identical Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible Simple Clauses
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138A Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te Lexicon
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142A Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Affective meanings Other
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb Type 1 / Type 2 Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb More than one position Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages More than one construction Word Order
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144E Multiple Negative Constructions in SVO Languages SNegVO/SVNegO Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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