 Swedish is an Indo @-@ European language belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages . In the established classification , it belongs to the East Scandinavian languages together with Danish , separating it from the West Scandinavian languages , consisting of Faroese , Icelandic and Norwegian . However , more recent analyses divide the North Germanic languages into two groups : Insular Scandinavian ( Faroese and Icelandic ) , and Continental Scandinavian ( Danish , Norwegian , and Swedish ) , based on mutual intelligibility due to heavy influence of East Scandinavian ( particularly Danish ) on Norwegian during the last millennium and divergence from both Faroese and Icelandic . 
