Languages of Finland

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Finland has two official languages.

map showing Finnish dialects, inside Finland and in other countries

Map highlighting where Swedish is spoken in Finland

Map showing the traditional Sami language region

1 Finnish
2 Swedish
3 Sami Languages
4 Russian
5 See also

[edit] Finnish

Finnish is the native tongue of 94% of the population.

[edit] Swedish

Swedish is the native tongue of 5.5% of the population (92.4% in the Åland autonomous province), down from 14% at the beginning of the 20th century. Its importance in Finland is greater than this percentage suggests, however, for historical reasons and because a large fraction of Finns are competent in it.

[edit] Sami Languages

See: Sami languages

[edit] Russian

Recently, immigration has fueled a growth in Russian along the border with Russia.

[edit] See also

Finland's language strife

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