Editing Swedish language (section)

===Regulatory bodies===
[[File:Estonian archipelago (Saaremaa and Hiiumaa).jpg|thumb|right|Map of the [[West Estonian archipelago|Estonian islands]], which formerly housed "''Coastal Swede''" populations]]
The [[Swedish Language Council]] (''Språkrådet'') is the regulator of Swedish in Sweden but does not attempt to enforce control of the language, as for instance the {{Lang|fr|[[Académie française]]|italic=no}} does for [[French language|French]]. However, many organizations and agencies require the use of the council's publication ''Svenska skrivregler'' in official contexts, with it otherwise being regarded as a ''de facto'' orthographic standard. Among the many organizations that make up the Swedish Language Council, the [[Swedish Academy]] (established 1786) is arguably the most influential. Its primary instruments are the [[Spelling#Spelling standards and conventions|spelling dictionary]] ''[[Svenska Akademiens ordlista]]'' (''SAOL'', currently in its 14th edition) and the dictionary ''[[Svenska Akademiens Ordbok]]'', in addition to various books on grammar, spelling and manuals of style. Although the dictionaries have a [[Linguistic prescription|prescriptive]] element, they mainly describe current usage.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gellerstam |first1=Martin |title=Norm och bruk i SAOL |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/24007 |publisher=Nordisk forening for leksikografi i samarbeit med Nordisk språksekretariat |access-date=2 March 2018 |language=sv |date=2002 |archive-date=3 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303105713/https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/24007 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In Finland, a special branch of the [[Research Institute for the Languages of Finland]] has official status as the regulatory body for Swedish in Finland. Among its highest priorities is to maintain intelligibility with the language spoken in Sweden. It has published ''Finlandssvensk ordbok'', a dictionary about the differences between Swedish in Finland and Sweden.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/lexn/article/view/18709/16362|title = Normeringen i Finlandssvensk ordbok|last = af Hällström|first = Charlotta|date = 2002|journal = LexicoNordica 9, 2002, S. 51–62|issue = 9| doi=10.7146/ln.v0i9.18709 |access-date = 9 February 2016|archive-date = 16 February 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160216172730/http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/lexn/article/view/18709/16362|url-status = live|url-access = subscription}}</ref>