Elfdalian Lesson 1, from Gunnar Nyström’s and Yair Sapir’s Textbook for Elfdalian/Introduktion till älvdalska 2005. The situation changed dramatically in the past century, however.

Elfdalian served the people of Älvdalen as trade and economic networks were mostly local, and no other languages were necessary The ancient Viking language of Elfdalian has been almost entirely ...

Malcolm Brabant 05/28/2015 Sweden is being urged to do more to save an endangered Germanic language dating back to biblical times. It’s called Elfdalian, and it can be heard in the woodlands and ...

Elfdalian is a real language currently used by around 2500 people, but after figures emerged that only 60 children currently speak the language, Älvdalan, the town where it is spoken, planned to start ...

Sweden's magical forests are home to Elfdalian, an ancient, endangered language A Swedish parliamentary representative is calling for action to preserve an extremely vulnerable language spoken in ...

Speaking in Elfdalian, Swedish MP Peter Helander recently asked Parliament why that’s the case. But before Culture Minister Amanda Lind could answer the question, the parliamentary speaker interrupted ...

Most people know Nordic languages such as Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic, but deep in the Swedish woods exists a language which very few people have ever heard of. Elfdalian, which the ...

Elfdalian (älvdalska in Swedish and övdalsk in the language itself) sounds like something you would more likely encounter in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings rather than in a remote Swedish forest.