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	Minority languages of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1999 the Minority Language Committee of Sweden formally declared five minority languages of Sweden: Romani, Yiddish, Finnish, Sami language and Meänkieli (Tornedal).
		Sweden has no official language but the Swedish is the national language and de facto official language of the country, dominating commercial and cultural life.
		Meänkieli or Tornedalian language is spoken by a population in northern Sweden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minority_languages_in_Sweden (746 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sweden proper, or Egentliga Sverige, is a term used to distinguish those territories that were fully integrated into the Kingdom of Sweden, as opposed to the dominions and possessions of, or states in union with, the Realm of Sweden.
		The Riksdag or Sveriges Riksdag is the Parliament of Sweden.
		In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north pines and hardy birches dominate the landscape.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sweden (9899 words)

	"Steps towards a minority policy in Sweden" - in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		For Sweden to be able to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the requirements laid down in the provisions of Part II of the Charter must be fulfilled for Sami and Finnish, as well as Romany Chib (with certain restrictions since Romany Chib is a non-territorial language).
		For Sweden to be able to ratify the Charter, it will be necessary, in our view, to coordinate the measures currently in force and introduce some new measures for the purpose of establishing a general minority language policy in Sweden.
		To this end, we propose that the historical minority languages and the culture and history associated with them be made required knowledge in the curricula for all compulsory and upper secondary school pupils.
	www.scania.org /ssf/human/lang/0920mino.htm (2172 words)

	Sweden - Biocrawler definition:Sweden - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe in the 19th century, and shaped by a dogmatic Protestantism, until its natural assets – timber, iron ore, grains – allowed it to fund a social democratic welfare state in the early 20th century.
		Sweden was inhabited by hunters and gatherers during the Stone Age (6000 BC – 4000 BC), following the recession of the last ice age – the Weichsel glaciation.
		Sweden was first mentioned in the 1st century, by Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote that the Suiones lived out in the sea and were powerful in both arms and ships.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Sweden (3254 words)

	Official language article - Official language language constitutions states minority languages Ladin Sardinian - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		An official language is a language that is specifically designated to be so in the constitutions of countries, states, and other territories.
		However, a language officially recognized by a state, taught in schools and used in official communication is not necessarily an official language.
		As a consequence of colonialism or neocolonialism, the official and learning languages of the Philippines and some countries in Africa, such as French or English, are not the national languages or the most widely spoken.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Official_language (365 words)

	SSF - The Scanian Language 2001 - English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages 1992 - was a result of the inability of the nation states to preserve the linguistic diversity of the world.
		The regional languages in Sweden were dismissed as being Swedish dialects and thus not covered by the regulations of the charter.
		Language is one of the cultural forms of expression that is tied to the regions and gives them their specific characteristics.
	www.scania.org /ssf/human/lang2001/langeng.htm (4505 words)

	Round table - Sweden
		In a Government Bill on national minorities that was approved by the Swedish Parliament in December 1999, the Government proposes that Sweden take a number of measures aimed at strengthening the situation of these groups in Sweden and giving their languages the support necessary to maintain and develop them.
		The national minorities in Sweden thereby recognised are the Sami, Swedish Finns, Tornedalers, Roma and Jews.
		Furthermore in contrast to policies concerning national minorities, integration policy focusing on immigrants as a group should be restricted to investments and measures that may be necessary during their early days in Sweden.
	www.cbss.st /Docs/ministerial/19/RT5.htm (1567 words)

	The world's top sweden websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sweden subsequently broke away in 1521, when Gustav Eriksson Vasa, known as king Gustav I of Sweden from 1523, re-established separation of the Swedish Crown from the union.
		Sweden has been a monarchy for almost a millennium with supply controlled by the parliament (the taxed peasantry constituting one of four chambers).
		In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north ferns and hardy birches dominate the landscape.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/sweden (2333 words)

	Language and Culture in Sweden (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sweden cooperates with Finland in the distribution of Finnish television to Finns in Sweden.
		Except for in Sweden, Swedish is spoken by a native minority in Finland, and a nowadays very small minority at the Estonian coast and islands.
		Sweden is on the 15th position on the list of suicide rates in Europe, and only England and Portugal have longer working weeks than Sweden.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq724.html (2934 words)

	Terralingua -- Discussion Paper #13
		In addition, the report excludes sign language from the possible minority languages, by arguing that the sign language is an instrumental language rather than a cultural one.
		The individual may write in one of the minority languages, but the authority can respond in Swedish, with a note written in the minority language indicating that an oral version of the content can be provided in the home language of the individual.
		The languages and their associated cultures should be part of the school curriculum, and at least one university or college should be assigned the task of arranging for education and research on the respective language.
	www.terralingua.org /DiscPapers/DiscPaper13.htm (1319 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Sweden: Legislation
		In Tornedalen, Meänkieli and Finnish (Sweden Finnish) are official minority languages according to level 3 of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages.
		Elsewhere in Sweden, Sweden Finnish is the official minority language according to the level 2.
		After another committee recommendation on multiculturalism in Sweden in 1983 (in force since 1985), the Tornedalen children have been given a higher degree of support than the children of immigrants, among which the Sweden Finns were also included until 1994.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=29&TID=1 (1123 words)

	First Language Attrition
		Using the present to predict the future in language contact: The case of immigrant minority languages in Sweden.
		Language acquisition and language breakdown: Parallels and divergencies.
		Native language attrition amongst migrant workers: Towards an extension of the concept of interlanguage.
	w2.byuh.edu /academics/lang/attritionbiblio/firstlang.htm (3251 words)

	profile2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The major language spoken by all groups is Swedish which is approximately 90 percent of the population.
		The Swedish language is a member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian group of languages.
		Sweden with paid jobs is soon expected to equal that of men.
	members.aol.com /donnyc25/profile2.html (1756 words)

	BBC Education - Languages
		Swedish, the official language, is the first language of 93% of the 8.8m population of Sweden.
		The principal minority languages are Finnish, spoken by around 3% of the population, mostly situated in the north east, and
		, a language related to Finnish, spoken by around 0.1% of the Swedish population, mainly living in the north.
	www.bbc.co.uk /languages/european_languages/countries/sweden.shtml (55 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the dimensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe- harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many.
		He is the author/editor of 38 books including Reversing Language Shift (Multilingual Matters, 1991) and the General Editor (and founder) of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and of the book series Contributions to the Sociology of Language.
		Minority languages in the United States, with a focus on Spanish in California R. Macias; 17.
	www.ogmios.org /1610.htm (1183 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		Four official languages of Sweden are spoken in the municipality of Kiruna: Finnish, Meänkieli, Saami and Swedish.
		To be held at the Royal River Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, sponsored by the Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development (Mahidol University-Salaya), SIL International, and UNESCO.
		Language, Education and Diversity, 26-29 Nov. 2003, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
	www.ogmios.org /2010.htm (705 words)

	The more languages the better
		At the same time, autochtonous regional minorities are claiming rights which have been denied to them for a very long time, and in some cases – Breton is a case in point – people are rediscovering and reviving the languages of their ancestors.
		One of the things which become clear from these chapters is that the national minority languages in Sweden have actually profited from the participation of Sweden in the European Union.
		Also from this book it becomes clear that in many European countries, people are aiming at a three-language model: one language for at home, which may be a minority language, one language for in public life, which presumably will be an official national language, and one language for international European use.
	www.vanoostendorp.nl /linguist/extragorter.html (654 words)

	Facts and Figures on Sweden, information on Sweden
		Sweden is currently divided into 21 counties (län) that are political divisions dealing with local administration, mainly health, dental and medical care, education and culture.
		Sweden is also divided into 27 provinces, which do not directly correlate with the counties.
		Sweden has a number of flag days on which state authorities are required to fly the flag.
	www.earthyfamily.com /S-facts.htm (1061 words)

	Sweden & Swedes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sami (Lapp), Finnish, Meänkieli (Tornedalen Finnish), Yiddish and Romani Chib (a Gypsy language) have official status as minority languages in Sweden.
		The Swedish language belongs to the northern branch of the Germanic language tree, together with Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic (we can all more or less understand each other's spoken and written languages).
		Swedish is the native language of Sweden and also the native language of the Fenno-Swedish minority of about 300,000 people in Finland.
	www.sweden.se /templates/cs/SASTopic____2435.aspx?launched=true (239 words)

	Finno-Ugric languages on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		These languages have about 24 million speakers distributed in enclaves scattered in a territory that stretches from Norway east to the Ob River of Siberia and south to the Carpathian Mts.
		Ostyak is spoken by about 25,000 in the area of the Ob River of W Siberia, and Vogul is the language of some 5,000 in the neighborhood of the Ob and Irtysh rivers of W Siberia.
		The Finno-Ugric languages are agglutinative in that they add large numbers of suffixes to an unchanging root (one suffix following the other) to indicate such features as case, number, person, tense, and mood.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FinnoU1gr.asp (352 words)

	Wycliffe International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Excitement spread to nearby language groups, who plan to send trainees to a translation workshop sometime next year.
		SPIRITUAL PARTY -- A language community of nearly 2,000 speakers in Asia received a blessing from the Lord when their New Testament was recently dedicated.
		One of the language groups represented follows a traditional religion that resists the Gospel.
	www.wycliffe.net /praynews.php (1195 words)

	ipedia.com: Minority languages in Sweden Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Since Sweden's adoption of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in 1999 there are five officially recognized minority languages: Sami, Meaenkieli-Finnish, Standard-Finnish, Romani chib and Jiddisch.
		The Sami language, spoken by ~7,000 people in Sweden?, may be used in government agencies, courts, preschools and nursing homes in the municipalities of Arjeplog, Gaellivare, Jokkmokk and Kiruna and its immidiate neighbourhood.
		Romany and Jiddisch gets the position of "historical minority languages" all throughout the country, and thus the Swedish state has a certain obligation to preserve them.
	www.ipedia.com /minority_languages_in_sweden.html (206 words)

	Swedish words and phrases and Swedish translations
		Swedish is the official and most common language in Sweden.
		Sami is one of the largest minority languages found in Sweden and is still used extensively by the Sami population.
		English is taught as a compulsory second language from the 4th grade on in schools in Sweden.
	www.earthyfamily.com /S-words.htm (151 words)

	Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		80% belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden.
		Swedish (minority languages; Sami, Finnish, Yiddish and Romani Chib
		In wintertime, the north part of Sweden is perfekt for going skiing.
	www.geocities.com /joensson_daniel/sweden.html (61 words)

	National and Ethnic - Nordic and Baltic Europe and Finno-Ugric
		The Construction of a Full-Text Database on Balto-Finnic Languages and Russian Dialects in Northwest Russia.
		Four Minority Languages of Sweden (Tornedalian Finnish [Meänkieli], Romanes, Sami, Finnish).
		Forest Finns in Sweden - Migration, Colonization and Assimilation.
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/nat_ethnic_nordic.html (2214 words)

	European minority languages
		The influence of the languages of Ireland and Scotland on linguistic varieties in northern England
		Belgium - Languages and Dialects - Luxemburgian in Belgium
		Minoritas: Kärntner Slowenen - Slovene minority in Austria
	www.smo.uhi.ac.uk /saoghal/mion-chanain/en (1458 words)

	GlobalWatch
		Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson says Swedish soldiers could be sent to Iraq, but only if the request comes through the United Nations.
		Sweden Criticised for Failure to Protect Minority Languages
		The Council of Europe has criticised Sweden s efforts to protect minority languages.
	radio.weblogs.com /0123269/categories/radioSwedenNews/2003/08/22.html (131 words)

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