 This type of classification , however , is based on a somewhat romanticized nationalist view of ethnicity and language . The idea that only rural variants of Swedish should be considered " genuine " is not generally accepted by modern scholars . No dialects , no matter how remote or obscure , remained unchanged or undisturbed by a minimum of influences from surrounding dialects or the standard language , especially not from the late 19th century onwards with the advent of mass media and advanced forms of transport . The differences are today more accurately described by a scale that runs from " standard language " to " rural dialect " where the speech even of the same person may vary from one extreme to the other depending on the situation . All Swedish dialects with the exception of the highly diverging forms of speech in Dalarna , Norrbotten and , to some extent , Gotland can be considered to be part of a common , mutually intelligible dialect continuum . This continuum may also include Norwegian and some Danish dialects . 
