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Jan 9, 2022 · How many letters are in the Swedish alphabet? The Swedish alphabet has 29 letters, the same 26 (A–Z) that the English alphabet has, plus three additional Swedish letters – Å, Ä and Ö. It’s made up of 20 consonants and nine vowels.
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Apr 13, 2023 · Most Swedish-speaking Finns speak fluent or functional Finnish. Only 45% of Finns say their Swedish is satisfactory, while 26% say that they do not speak the language at all, despite the fact that it is obligatory in school.
The Swedish alphabet is a 29-letter alphabet, using the 26-letter ISO basic Latin alphabet plus the three additional letters å , ä , and ö constructed in the 16th century by writing o and e on top of an a , and an e on top of an o .
Finland Swedish or Fenno-Swedish (Swedish: finlandssvenska; Finnish: suomenruotsi) is a variety of the Swedish language and a closely related group of Swedish dialects spoken in Finland by the Swedish-speaking population, commonly also referred to as Finland Swedes, as their first language.
Number of speakers: c. 10.2 million. Spoken in: Sweden, Finland, Estonia. First written: AD 1225. Writing system: Runic script (9th-11th century), then the Latin alphabet. Status: official language in Sweden and Finland. There used to be Swedish-speaking communities in Estonia ( Estland ).
The majority of the population of Finland (90.37% as of 2010) speak Finnish as their first language. The remainder speak Swedish (5.42%), one of the Sámi languages (for example Northern, Inari, or Skolt), or another language as their first language.
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Sep 12, 2022 · They are Swedish-speaking Finns whose first language is Swedish but who can also speak Finnish, and who are obliged to do so at work and outside the home. When Finland is described as a “bilingual” nation, it means that Swedo-Finns can speak both Finnish and Swedish.
