The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: JMK
ISO 639-2: gem
| Population | 30,000 or more who speak it fluently, plus 60,000 or more who understand it (2000 J. Persson). |
| Region | Jämtland and scattered elsewhere in Sweden. |
| Alternate names | JAMTSKA |
| Classification | Indo-European, Germanic, North, West Scandinavian. |
| Comments | Perhaps 95% lexical similarity to other Norwegian or Swedish dialects, other loans from German, Danish, French. Many parents do not teach it to their children. |
