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This article investigates policies and practices regarding non-Scandinavian place-names in Sweden's seventeenth-century state.

June 13, 2026Scandinavian StudiesOpen Access

Swedifying the Other

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This article investigates policies and practices regarding non-Scandinavian place-names in Sweden's seventeenth-century state.
Linguistic analyses of central regulations on place-name collection and processing.
Examination of 6,311 place-names from cadastral maps and descriptions.
Analysis involves three language contact areas: Västerbotten, Turku and Pori, and Pomerania.
Linguistic adaptation rates of non-Scandinavian names vary across data sets.
Different adaptation strategies were identified based on language contact areas.
Both linguistic and extralinguistic factors influenced the results.

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Investigation explores place-name policies in Sweden, revealing differences in adaptation strategies.

Alexandra Petrulevich (2026) studied this question.

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