The Swedish Language:
The vernaculars spoken in Scandinavian countries are the descendants of Old Norse, the tongue spoken by the Vikings. Swedish is one such vernacular that is spoken by ten million people as their native tongue. The number of people who can speak it is rapidly increasing. The reason behind that is the significant number of immigrants that end up in the country every year. They try to learn the tongue through apps and YouTube videos. Currently, three million people speak it as their second language. Along with Sweden, the vernacular is also spoken in Finland. It belongs to the North Germanic group of the Indo-European family.
The language is mutually intelligible with other descendants of Old Norse: Norwegian and Danish. But the degree of similarity between the three depends on the dialect. The accent of the speaker also affects the similarities between the vernaculars. At one point in history, the vernacular was also spoken in Estonia. Sweden shares a few similarities with English, which is why it is easier for the speakers of the latter to learn it. But the two are not mutually intelligible and have a lot of differences because they belong to separate groups of languages.