Swedish is Finland’s second official language, yet less than 6% of the population are native speakers. This percentage has declined by half over the last century, leaving only 300,000 Swedish-speaking ...

The selection of KAJ as Sweden's Eurovision entry has piqued international curiosity about Swedish-speaking Finns who make up roughly five percent of Finland's population. "Swedish-speaking Finns have ...

For a few months now, users from Finland have been complaining that Google Maps Finland is in Swedish and not in their native language, Finnish. A Google Maps Help thread has those complaints. A ...

Vörå (Finland) (AFP) – Comedy act KAJ, the favourite to win Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, has shone a spotlight on Finland's small Swedish-speaking minority, little-known outside the ...

As the world becomes globalized, language-immersion education in our public schools is increasingly important. We need to teach our students about other cultures and languages as well as model ...

The Scandinavian languages are Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and Faroese. Our primary focus within the research field of Scandinavian languages is the Swedish language, but we also do research ...