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	Swedish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swedish is the sole official language of Åland, an autonomous province under the sovereignty of Finland, where 95% of the 26,000 inhabitants speak Swedish as a first language.
		Finland was under Swedish control from the mid 14th century until the loss of the Finnish territories to Russia in 1809.
		Standard Swedish is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century and was well-established by the beginning of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swedish_language

	Finland-Swedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swedish is the mother tongue for about 265,000 persons in Mainland Finland and 25,000 on Åland, or 5.55% of the total population according to official statistics for 2003
		Since Finland's entry to the European Union this has laxed somewhat; in the matriculation examination, usually taken at age 18, Swedish and Finnish as the other domestic language is no longer a mandatory subject.
		While many ethnic Finns speak Swedish as a second language, only those who have Swedish as their first language are considered to be Finland-Swedes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finlandssvensk

	Finland - Swedish-speaking Finns
		Swedish retained its primacy until the second half of the nineteenth century, when, as a result of budding nationalism, it was gradually displaced by Finnish.
		By the end of the nineteenth century, the areas of Swedish settlement had shrunk to basically what they were in the second half of the 1980s: Ostrobothnia, the Aland Islands, and a strip along the southern coast that included the capital.
		Some of the Swedish speakers who lived apart from their fellows did so voluntarily because they had management positions at factories and plants in regions that were nearly entirely Finnish-speaking areas.
	countrystudies.us /finland/43.htm

	Swedish in Finland — Virtual Finland
		Swedish in Finland by the Swedish Assembly in Finland
		In 1863, Finnish was given an equal position with Swedish as the official language of Finland, and a legislative reform in 1906 gave Finnish a position in practice which corresponded to the dominant numbers of Finnish speakers in the country’s population.
		They are (with the number of Swedish-language MPs in brackets): the Social Democratic Party of Finland (1), the Left Alliance (1), the Christian Democrats (1), the Green League of Finland (1), the True Finns (1) and the National Coalition Party (2).
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/finnswedes.html

	Swedish in Finland
		The obligatory number of courses in Swedish as mother tongue is six: (1) language and communication, (2) creative text-producing, (3) text- and language structure, (4) Finland-Swedish and Nordic, (5) literature as a mirror of contemporary society and (6) language and literature as power factors.
		Swedish is studied as a mother tongue and the teaching of reading and writing is central in the first and second grades.
		Swedish is described in the Finnish-language national curriculum (1994) as part of the students' general education.
	www1.fa.knaw.nl /mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_swedish_in_finland.htm

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:SWD
		Eastern Swedish is in Finland, Estonia, and Gammalsvenskby, Ukraine.
		Northern Swedish is from northern Hälsingland and Jämtland and northwards.
		296,000 in Finland, 5.7% of the population (1997).
	www.ethnologue.org /show_language.asp?code=SWD

	History of Finland
		Finland was granted autonomy and toward the end of the nineteenth century, the Finnish language became an official language together with the Swedish and then, finally, the first official language.
		In Finland, it is possible to choose civil over military service, belonging to the state Church is optional, our law sanctions married and unmarried couples alike and acknowledges the registration of a homosexual or lesbian relationship, but the powers-that-be still offer no alternative to the study of Swedish, mandatory for all.
		Since 1590s the Swedish rule was particularly bleak for Finland, used by the Swedish Empire, not only as a buffer against Russia, but also as a colony to be ruthlessly exploited economically and whose male population could be and was used as canon-fodder in meaningless and devastating wars.
	www.suomalaisuudenliitto.fi /history.htm

	Euromosaic - Swedish in Finland
		The Swedish-speaking population of Finland lives primarily along the coast in four different areas: Österbotten/Pohjanmaa in the Vaasa/Vasa province, in the archipelago west of Turku/Åbo and in the city of Turku/Åbo (Turun ja Porin/Åbo och Björneborg province), in the southern cost of Finland (Uusimaa/Nyland province, with the city of Helsinki/Helsingfors) and on the Åland Islands.
		Teacher training in Swedish for Swedish-speaking schools is provided by the Faculty of Education of the Åbo Akademi located in the Ostrobothnian campus in the city of Vaasa/Vasa, in the centre of the most intensely and compactly Swedish-speaking region of Finland.
		Article 14 of the Constitution of Finland states that Finnish and Swedish are the official languages of the Republic and that the State guarantees the right of all citizens to use their mother tongue (Finnish or Swedish) in any official relation with State and public administration.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/suec/an/e1/e1.html

	February 30 article - February 30 Gregorian calendar February Sweden Finland Swedish realm Julian - What-Means.com
		Sweden (at that time Finland was part of the Swedish realm) planned to change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, beginning in 1700 by omitting the leap days for the next 40 years.
		The Swedish change to the Gregorian calendar was finally done in 1753.
		This brought the Swedish calendar one day ahead of the Julian calendar but still ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/February_30

	National Minorities of Finland, The Swedish-speaking Finns — Virtual Finland
		Swedish-speakers in Finland have had a certain reluctance to consider themselves a minority in the legal sense due to the fact that the Finnish Constitution guarantees Swedish official status on equal terms with Finnish.
		In Finland there is only one political party that declares itself to be a Swedish-language party.
		The resolution of the Åland dispute had a decisive impact on how the Swedish question was to be settled in mainland Finland.
	virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26471

	History of Finland: A selection of events and documents
		Reunited with Finland by an imperial decree of Alexander I in 1811.
		Finland was forced on March 14, 1940 and again on Sept. 19, 1944 to cede her 2nd largest city to the Soviet Union in accordance with the peace treaties.
		In the secret protocol Finland and the Baltic countries were included in the Russian side of spheres of interest in the event of a territorial and political rearrangement in the areas belonging to these countries.
	www.histdoc.net /history/history.html

	WHKMLA : Finland under Swedish Rule, 1525-1808
		The decision to introduce reformation in Sweden in 1527 also affected Finland, where the Swedish language version of the bible was used, until a Finnish translation was published in 1642; Swedish became the language of administration and education (replacing both Latin and Lower German).
		After Sweden had attacked Russia in 1741 (Russo- Swedish War 1741-1743), Tsarina Catharina proposed Finland to become an independent, neutral state.
		In the FAMINE OF 1696, Finland lost about a third of it's population; after the Great Northern War (1700-1721), the province of EASTERN KARELIA was ceded to Russia, which built it's new capital, ST.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/scandinavia/swefin.html

	Svenska yrkeshögskolan
		Swedish Polytechnic, Finland takes responsibility for the regional demand for labour and the regional development as well as national responsibility for providing higher education in Swedish.
		Around half of our education programmes are the only ones of their kind in Finland that are provided in Swedish.
		The degree programmes are given in SWEDISH and require full proficiency in Swedish.
	www.syh.fi /eng

	Swedish Composer in Finland Turned Back on the Eurovision Contest to Become Nordic Radio Success
		Petra Schauman who has made a career as actress and opera singer at the Swedish National Theatre in Helsinki, Finland renders a very delicate and almost heartbreaking interpretation of lyrics speaking of the loss of a dear friend, memories and hope that two souls will be reunited after death.
		Helsinki, Finland (PRWEB) November 25, 2004 -- The single “En sista vers” (A Final Verse) released by prize-nominated author and composer Gunnar K. Njålsson earlier this month is starting to receive increasing radio airplay in the Nordic countries, even where the uniquely moving Swedish lyrics are not fully understood.
		The lyrics are in Swedish and describing the loss of a dear friend and the hope of meeting again after death.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2004/11/prwebxml181265.php

	GeoNative - Swedish in Finland - Finnish in Sweden
		GeoNative - Swedish in Finland - Finnish in Sweden
		There is a Swedish minority in Finland, and a Finnish minority in Sweden.
		Check also the Sami tables for Sweden and Finland, Finnish in Russia and Norway, and Swedish in Estonia.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/sve.html

	Finland-Swedish - Uncyclopedia
		Its prosody is marked by Finnish, but the words are mainly Swedish.
		Adding to the amusement is that a number of trolls resembling the teletubbies and called Mumin are the arguably best known proponents of the language.
		It is designed by a committee of a handful people, making up the entire Finn population.
	www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Finland-Swedish

	MSN Encarta - Swedish Language
		Swedish Language, language of Sweden and of Swedish settlers in other parts of the world, notably in Finland.
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	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554161/Swedish_Language.html

	Ethnologue report for Finland
		Dialects: Standard Swedish, Österbotten (Ostrobothnian), Åland Islands Swedish, Southwest Finland Swedish, Uusimaa Swedish, Nyland Swedish.
		Coasts of the provinces of Central Österbotten (Ostrobothnia), Vasa (Vaasa), Southwest Finland, Nyland (Uusimaa) (Helsingfors), Åland Islands, Kymenlaakso.
		Ethnic population: 500 in Finland (1995 M. Krauss).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Finland

	Helsinki Hotel & Travel Information — Helsinki Finland Hotel and Travel
		It is one of life’s greatest pleasures to know so much is in one city in Finland.
		Helsinki Hotel & Travel Information — Helsinki Finland Hotel and Travel
		Helsinki Travel Information - Helsinki is built on the islands and is frequently called the city of the sea.
	www.helsinkicitytourist.com

	Finland-Swedish Links
		New Fiction and Facts from Finland includes listings and very brief summaries of the latest releases of Finland-Swedish books for adults and children.
		Finland-Swedish Expressions While "Finlandssvenska" is not a separate language, there are some expressions which Swedish speakers from Sweden find a bit unusual or archaic.
		This list is based on Harry Stenmark's book on Finland-Swedish idioms, and partially on the author's own observations.
	www.csua.berkeley.edu /~larson/fisv.html

	Svenska yrkeshögskolan
		Drygt hälften av våra utbildningar är sådana som vi är ensamma i Finland om att ha på svenska.
	www.syh.fi

	BBC NEWS Wales Anglesey loses island games race
		An independent region of Finland, Swedish is the main language
		It was announced during the 11th event in Lerwick on Shetland that its only rival, Aland of Finland, was backed by the games' association 33 votes to 21.
		It is two hours by ferry from Sweden and five hours by sea from Finland
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/wales/4676141.stm

	SFP
		Rundradions förvaltningsråds beslut att avstå från sändningsrätten av SVT i Finland väcker bestörtning inom Svenska riksdagsgruppen.
		Riksdagsledamot Nils-Anders Granvik ställer sig kritisk till jord- och skogsbruksministeriets planer på att låta vargstammen växa i västra Finland.
		Inför presidentvalet arrangeras till förmån för Henrik Lax ett fundraising seminarium om Finlands framtida möjligheter — talare är president Martti Ahtisaari, Rysslands fd premiärminister, doktor Jegor Gaidar och Sitras överombudsman Esko Aho.
	www.sfp.fi

	Sid's Homesick Blues - Information of Suomi, Finland
		Finland Festivals (in Finnish, Swedish, English, German and French)
		Finland Exports - Suomen ulkomaankauppaliitto (mainly in Finnish)
		STT - Suomen Tietotoimisto - Finnish News Agency (in Finnish and in Swedish)
	www.helsinki.fi /~taalto/sid.html

	Swedish Assembly of Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swedish in Finland - a brochure in English and French by (and in part about) the Assembly
		Swedish Assembly of Finland - Official site (Swedish and Finnish)
		The assembly is a forum for political discussion on issues concerning Swedish speakers, and it also functions as an interest group for Swedish-speaking population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swedish_Assembly_of_Finland

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background
		Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809.
		As a member of the European Union, Finland was the only Nordic state to join the euro system at its initiation in January 1999.
		In 1995, Austria, Finland, and Sweden joined the EU, raising the membership total to 15.
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html

	Euromosaic - Swedish in Finland
		The Swedish-speaking population of Finland lives primarily along the coast in four different areas: Österbotten/Pohjanmaa in the Vaasa/Vasa province, in the archipelago west of Turku/Åbo and in the city of Turku/Åbo (Turun ja Porin/Åbo och Björneborg province), in the southern cost of Finland (Uusimaa/Nyland province, with the city of Helsinki/Helsingfors) and on the Åland Islands.
		Teacher training in Swedish for Swedish-speaking schools is provided by the Faculty of Education of the Åbo Akademi located in the Ostrobothnian campus in the city of Vaasa/Vasa, in the centre of the most intensely and compactly Swedish-speaking region of Finland.
		Article 14 of the Constitution of Finland states that Finnish and Swedish are the official languages of the Republic and that the State guarantees the right of all citizens to use their mother tongue (Finnish or Swedish) in any official relation with State and public administration.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/suec/an/e1/e1.html

	Finland (01/05)
		Following Finland's incorporation into Sweden in the 12th century, Swedish became the dominant language, although Finnish recovered its predominance after a 19th-century resurgence of Finnish nationalism.
		Finland's 1995 accession to the European Union (EU) has blurred the line between foreign and domestic policy; the respective roles of the president and prime minister are evolving, and plans are under consideration to rewrite the constitution to clarify these and other issues.
		Finland is well represented in the UN civil service in proportion to its population and belongs to several of its specialized and related agencies.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3238.htm

	Articles - Ãland
		The Swedish map made the islands appear to be closer to the mainland of Sweden than to Finland; the Finnish map stressed the continuousity of the archipelago between the main-island and mainland Finland, while a greater gap appeared between the islands and the archipelago on the Swedish side.
		Swedish nationalist sentiments had grown strong particularly in the face of anti-Swedish tendencies in Finland, Finnish nationalism fuelled by Finland's struggle to retain its autonomy, and the Finnish resistance against Russification.
		The archipelago is connected to Turku archipelago in the east ( Finnish : Turunmaan saaristo, Swedish : Ãbo skÃ¤rgÃ¥rd), the archipelago adjacent to the southwest coast of Finland.
	www.free-biz.org /articles/Åland

	Finland-Swedish -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Swedish is the (One's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next) mother tongue for about 265,000 persons in (Click link for more info and facts about Mainland Finland) Mainland Finland and 25,000 on Åland, or 5.55% of the total population according to official statistics for 2003.
		From 1600's until 1863 Swedish, not (The official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages) Finnish, was the main language of jurisdiction and administration in (Republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917) Finland.
		Finland being a bilingual country, according to its constitution, means that citizens of the Finland-Swedish minority have the right to communicate with authorities in their mother tongue.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fi/Finland-Swedish1.htm

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