Editing Pluricentric language (section)

=== Swedish ===
Two varieties exist,{{citation needed|date=September 2014}} though only one written standard remains (regulated by the [[Swedish Academy]] of Sweden): ''[[Rikssvenska]]'' (literally "Realm Swedish", also less commonly known as "Högsvenska", 'High Swedish' in Finland), the official language of Sweden, and ''[[Finlandssvenska]]'' which, alongside Finnish, is the other official language of Finland. There are differences in vocabulary and grammar, with the variety used in Finland remaining a little more conservative. The most marked differences are in pronunciation and intonation: Whereas Swedish speakers usually pronounce the so-called "tj-sound" as {{IPAblink|ɕ}}, this phoneme is usually pronounced by a Swedo-Finn as {{IPAblink|t͡ʃ}}; in addition, the two tones that are characteristic of Swedish (and Norwegian) are absent from most Finnish dialects of Swedish, which have an intonation reminiscent of Finnish and thus sound more monotonous when compared to ''Rikssvenska''.

There are dialects that could be considered different languages due to long periods of isolation and geographical separation from the central dialects of Svealand and Götaland that came to constitute the base for the standard ''Rikssvenska''. Dialects such as [[Elfdalian]], [[Jamtlandic dialects|Jamtlandic]], and [[Gutnish]] all differ as much, or more, from standard Swedish than the standard varieties of [[Danish language|Danish]]. Some of them have a standardized orthography, but the Swedish government has not granted any of them official recognition as regional languages and continues to look upon them as dialects of Swedish. Most of them are severely endangered and spoken by elderly people in the countryside.