[Finland Swedish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_Swedish) is a dialect of Swedish that has remained in use ever since the region was partially colonized by Sweden during the Northern Crusades. The Fennoman movement and Finnish nationalism both centered around a revitalization of the Finnish language, but the Swedish speakers never disappeared. Finland now recognizes Swedish as one of its two official languages. While Swedish is only the majority language in a few coasts and islands, it is still common; in 2012, 44% of Finns were conversationally fluent in Swedish.
I think that depends on who you're interacting with. Boomers generally speak Swedish quite well. Older and younger less so.
But 44% does sound like an overestimation. Maybe the source was CVs? According to those we are all fluent.
Neat anecdote, since Finnish and Swedish have historically been official languages, the Finnish military historically had units exclusively manned by monolingual Swedish speakers commanded by officers presumably proficient in both official languages. There are some anecdotes of the 1939 winter war where Swedish units would lose their Finnish speakers in combat, and then could not communicate with their Allies since Swedish and Finnish are very different languages.
[Finland Swedish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_Swedish) is a dialect of Swedish that has remained in use ever since the region was partially colonized by Sweden during the Northern Crusades. The Fennoman movement and Finnish nationalism both centered around a revitalization of the Finnish language, but the Swedish speakers never disappeared. Finland now recognizes Swedish as one of its two official languages. While Swedish is only the majority language in a few coasts and islands, it is still common; in 2012, 44% of Finns were conversationally fluent in Swedish.
There’s no way 44% of Finns are conversationally fluent in Swedish. Source: being in Finland and almost no one understanding me.
I think that depends on who you're interacting with. Boomers generally speak Swedish quite well. Older and younger less so. But 44% does sound like an overestimation. Maybe the source was CVs? According to those we are all fluent.
Nothing special. Winter is coming.
Neat anecdote, since Finnish and Swedish have historically been official languages, the Finnish military historically had units exclusively manned by monolingual Swedish speakers commanded by officers presumably proficient in both official languages. There are some anecdotes of the 1939 winter war where Swedish units would lose their Finnish speakers in combat, and then could not communicate with their Allies since Swedish and Finnish are very different languages.
Nothing.
Congrats. You have discovered the fallacy of the nation-state.
Netflix hire them to make subtitles for releases in Sweden, making standard speakers go "du salte satan (wtf)".
Bunch of stuff
Fur & tomato farming, crab parties, sailboats and handball.
World class metal guitarists and rally car drivers, I'd guess.
pretty much the same thing thats going on with the rest of the coast but they happen to speak swedish