Editing Swedish language (section)

==Writing system==
{{Main|Swedish orthography}}
The [[Swedish alphabet]] is a 29-letter [[alphabet]], using the 26-letter [[ISO basic Latin alphabet]] plus the three additional letters {{vr|[[å]]}}, {{vr|[[ä]]}}, and {{vr|[[ö]]}} constructed in the 16th century by writing {{vr|o}} and {{vr|e}} on top of an {{vr|a}}, and an {{vr|e}} on top of an {{vr|o}}. Though these combinations are historically modified versions of {{vr|[[a]]}} and {{vr|[[o]]}} according to the English range of usage for the term [[diacritic]], these three characters are not considered to be diacritics within the Swedish application, but rather separate letters, and are independent letters following {{vr|z}}. Before the release of the 13th edition of {{lang|sv|[[Svenska Akademiens ordlista]]}} in April 2006, {{vr|w}} was treated as merely a variant of {{vr|v}} used only in names (such as "Wallenberg") and foreign words ("bowling"), and so was both sorted and pronounced as a {{vr|v}}. Other [[diacritic]]s (to use the broader English term usage referenced here) are unusual in Swedish; {{vr|[[é]]}} is sometimes used to indicate that the stress falls on a terminal syllable containing {{vr|e}}, especially when the stress changes the meaning ({{lang|sv|ide}} vs. {{lang|sv|idé}}, "winter lair" vs. "idea") as well as in some names, like {{lang|sv|Kastrén}}; occasionally other [[acute accent]]s and, less often, [[grave accent]]s can be seen in names and some foreign words. The letter {{vr|[[à]]}} is used to refer to unit cost (a loan from the French), equivalent to the [[at sign]] ({{vr|@}}) in English.<ref>{{Harvnb|Svenska språknämnden|2000}}</ref>

The German {{vr|[[ü]]}} is treated as a variant of {{vr|[[y]]}} and sometimes retained in foreign names and words, e. g., {{lang|sv|müsli}} ("muesli/granola"). A proper [[Diaeresis (diacritic)|diaeresis]] may very exceptionally be seen in elaborated style (for instance: "Aïda"). The German convention of writing {{vr|ä}} and {{vr|ö}} as {{vr|ae}} and {{vr|oe}} if the characters are unavailable is an unusual convention for speakers of modern Swedish. Despite the availability of all these characters in the Swedish national [[top-level domain|top-level Internet domain]] and other such domains, Swedish sites are frequently labelled using {{vr|a}} and {{vr|o}}, based on visual similarity, though Swedish domains could be registered using the characters {{vr|å}}, {{vr|ä}}, and {{vr|ö}} from 2003.<ref>{{cite web|title=Domain names with characters like å, ä, ö (IDN)|url=https://www.iis.se/english/domains/se/idn/|publisher=iiS|access-date=3 March 2018|archive-date=3 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303225156/https://www.iis.se/english/domains/se/idn/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In Swedish [[orthography]], the [[Colon (punctuation)|colon]] is used in a [[Colon (punctuation)#Usage|similar manner as in English]], with some exceptions: the colon is used for some abbreviations, such as {{lang|sv|3:e}} for {{lang|sv|tredje}} ("third") and {{lang|sv|S:t}} for {{lang|sv|Sankt}} ("Saint"), and for all types of [[suffix|endings]] that can be added to numbers, letters and abbreviations, such as {{lang|sv|a:et}} ("the a") and {{lang|sv|CD:n}} ("the CD"), or the genitive form {{lang|sv|USA:s}} ("USA's").<ref>{{Harvnb|Svenska språknämnden|2000|pp=154–156}}</ref>