A Swedish translator should be informed on the history of the language and that it belongs to the East Scandinavian branch together with Danish in the North Germanic language group, within the Indo-European language family. The Swedish language translator will also have an understanding that the language is spoken predominantly in Sweden and in part of Finland and the Åland Islands.  Swedish is also spoken in Estonia, Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, and the Australia.    Nearly 10 million people speak Swedish as their native. It is mutually intelligible with two of the other Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian.  A fun fact is that Swedish is the official language of Finland, yet not the official language in Sweden.  Sweden recognises five minority languages.  Although Swedish is the primary language in Sweden and used in local and state government and educational system.  A motion to make it the official language has never succeeded.  Your Swedish interpreter will understand these distinguishing features.

 

Your Swedish interpreter will understand standard Swedish; the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century.  It was well established by the beginning of the 20th century.  Spoken and written Swedish is standarised, yet there are distinct regional dialects that existed and continue to be spoken by a isolated minority found in rural parts of Sweden.  Some dialects differ considerably from the Standard Swedish language in grammar and vocabulary. 

Your Swedish translator will understand the standard word order is subject, Verb and Object.    Swedish is also similar to English and have few inflections with two genders.  The Swedish alphabet uses 26 Latin letters, as well as three additional vowels at the end of the alphabet:  å, ä, and ö.   The Swedish vocabulary is mainly Germanic and to a some extent English.   A large number of French words were imported into Swedish around the 18th century.