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Fredrik Lindström: "The dialects are much older than the Swedish national"

11/12/2019, 10:28:27 AM

Fredrik Lindström has collected and recorded dialects in his new book 100 Swedish Dialects. - The dialects are much older than the Swedish national dating back to the 16th and 1600s, he says in the Morning Study.


Fredrik Lindström has long been interested in dialects. In the Morning Studio he says that dialects came before the language and originated from the Indo-Europeans who came here thousands of years ago.

See the entire interview in the clip.