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The Swedish term finlandssvensk (literally 'Finland's-Swede'), which is used by the group itself, does not have an established English translation. The Society of Swedish Authors in Finland and the main political institutions for the Swedish-speaking minority, such as the Swedish People's Party and Swedish Assembly of Finland, use the expression Swedish-speaking population of Finland, but ...
Swedish is the main language of 5.2% of the population in 2022 [3] (92.4% in the Åland autonomous province), down from 14% at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2012, 44% of Finnish citizens with another registered primary language than Swedish could hold a conversation in this language. [4]
[1] [2] In Finland, as of December 31, 2013, 89.3% of the population speak Finnish, 5.3% Swedish and 0.04% Sami languages. [3] Both Finnish and Swedish are official languages of Finland. [4] Officially, a municipality is bilingual if the minority language group consists of at least 8% of the population, or at least 3,000 speakers. [1]
As of 2023, 558,294 people, or 10.0%, live in Finland with a first language other than Finnish, Swedish or Sámi. [1] More than 150 foreign languages are spoken in Finland. [30] However, most of them have only few speakers. Historically, Finland has been a bilingual country where only Finnish or Swedish was spoken.
The largest minority group in Finland is the Swedish-speaking Finns, who in 2018 numbered about 282,300, with all Swedish speakers in the country making a total of 288,400 which is 5.2% of the total population. [1]
Finland Swedish or Fenno-Swedish [1] (Swedish: finlandssvenska; Finnish: suomenruotsi) is a variety of the Swedish language and a closely related group of Swedish dialects spoken in Finland by the Swedish-speaking population, commonly also referred to as Finland Swedes, as their first language.
Swedish is the native language of 5.1% of the population (Swedish-speaking Finns). [1] Swedish is a compulsory school subject and general knowledge of the language is good among many non-native speakers. [231] Likewise, a majority of Swedish-speaking non-Ålanders can speak Finnish. [232]
Swedish People's Party of Finland (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Swedish-speaking population of Finland" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.