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Encyclopedia: Swedish-speaking Finns

Swedish-speaking Finns (often called Finland Swedes or Finnish Swedes, see below) constitute a linguistic and cultural minority in Finland. They speak a dialect group and a standard language that are both called Finland Swedish and that are mostly mutually intelligible with the dialects spoken in Sweden.

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How to say "Swedish-speaking Finns" in other languages:

	(German)	Finnlandschweden
	(French)	Suédois en Finlande

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Finns

nation with two languages, Finnish and Swedish: the Finns consist of a majority of Ethnic Finns, a culturally similar linguistic minority of Finland-Swedes (often denoted as Swedish speaking Finns... The Finns , as the term is used today, denotes the population of Finland. The 20th century history...

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Finland-Swedish

are often favored, and increasingly Swedish-speaking Finns in order to circumvent the confusion..., about 60,000 Swedish-speaking Finns are estimated to have emigrated to Sweden during the second half... Finnish-speaking towns and municipalities In addition, about 60,000 Swedish-speaking Finns are...

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Paleontology

Charles Walcott. Legendary European paleontologists include the Swedish-speaking Finn Björn KurtÃ... nomenclature scheme devised for the biology of living things by the mid 18th century Swedish biologist...

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List of words of disputed pronunciation

, is a Swedish-speaking Finn, and offers his take, both in audio [1] and prose [2]. Neither provides an... pronunciation in other English-speaking countries. (3) is common in the U.S. but is often considered... problem is that both English and Swedish have both tense and lax variants of the high vowels: [i]/[I...

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