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oico2388 wrote:Why is Swedish also spoken in Finland?
oico2388 wrote:Finnish and Swedish are both official languages of Finland. Why don't the Swedish in Finland learn Finnish?
oico2388 wrote:Why is Swedish also spoken in Finland?
Chekhov wrote:I don't know about naive worldviews, but Jurgen Wullenwhatever pisses me off to no end because of his extreme pessimism and cynicism. You'd think the world was going to end imminently when talking to that guy.
OyVey wrote:Ni sa att svenskar lär sig svenska i skolan. Talar svenskar som åkar åker till icke svenska svensktalande städer i Finland talar på svenska, eller nu för tiden mer på engelska nu för tiden?
Johanna wrote:Det finns också en del som är väldigt anti-svenska och anti-Sverige och träffar man på en sådan kan det uppstå mindre roliga situationer om man försöker prata det språket med dem.
lähettiläs wrote:Johanna wrote:Det finns också en del som är väldigt anti-svenska och anti-Sverige och träffar man på en sådan kan det uppstå mindre roliga situationer om man försöker prata det språket med dem.
Det är sant då många av oss är inte svensktalare från födelsen, men vi finnar haft alltid hatade ryssar mer än svenskar! Renträttende vi har också ogillade svenskarna som är ogillande av oss, blott inte allt.
Chekhov wrote:I don't know about naive worldviews, but Jurgen Wullenwhatever pisses me off to no end because of his extreme pessimism and cynicism. You'd think the world was going to end imminently when talking to that guy.
Jurgen Wullenwever wrote:Another reply could be that "when the border was drawn between Finland and rump-Sweden, the language border was not considered, so some Finnish-majority areas remained in Sweden, while some Swedish-majority areas ended up on the Finnish side".
Woods wrote:Jurgen Wullenwever wrote:Another reply could be that "when the border was drawn between Finland and rump-Sweden, the language border was not considered, so some Finnish-majority areas remained in Sweden, while some Swedish-majority areas ended up on the Finnish side".
And yet I have not heard of Sweden Finnish, even though I hear of Finland Swedish all the time – why is that?
linguoboy wrote:Woods wrote:Jurgen Wullenwever wrote:Another reply could be that "when the border was drawn between Finland and rump-Sweden, the language border was not considered, so some Finnish-majority areas remained in Sweden, while some Swedish-majority areas ended up on the Finnish side".
And yet I have not heard of Sweden Finnish, even though I hear of Finland Swedish all the time – why is that?
Perhaps because it goes by a different name?
Johanna wrote:Exactly, there is no language requirement for becoming a Swedish citizen, at all.
md0 wrote:Is it by any chance also similar to Norway, where there are multiple recognised standard registers of the language?
(Norway and German-speaking Switzerland are the two favourite examples of sociolinguists over here)
Woods wrote:According to Wikipedia, both Finnish and Swedish are official languages of Finland.
Woods wrote:Actually I have no idea - I've only been in Sweden for three months, and never in Finland, but from outside, it looks like Swedish is much more important in Finland than Finnish in Sweden. Is it not the case?
md0 wrote:Is it by any chance also similar to Norway, where there are multiple recognised standard registers of the language?
(Norway and German-speaking Switzerland are the two favourite examples of sociolinguists over here)
Woods wrote:And yet I have not heard of Sweden Finnish, even though I hear of Finland Swedish all the time – why is that?
Chekhov wrote:I don't know about naive worldviews, but Jurgen Wullenwhatever pisses me off to no end because of his extreme pessimism and cynicism. You'd think the world was going to end imminently when talking to that guy.
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