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to number to 30,000–90,000 — that is up to 1% of Sweden's population, but the proportion of active Finnish-speakers among them has declined drastically in the last generations, and Finnish is hardly spoken among the youngsters today. Since the 1970s largely unsuccessful efforts have been made to reverse some of the effects of Swedification, notably education and public broadcasts in Finnish, to raise the status of Finnish. As a result, a written
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People with Finnish heritage comprise a relatively large share of the population of Sweden. In addition to a smaller part of Sweden Finns historically residing in Sweden, there were about 426,000 people in Sweden (4.46% of the total population in 2012) who were either born in Finland or had at least
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and Swedification of the Finnish-speaking population. These efforts peaked from the end of the 1800s and until the 1950s. Finnish speakers remain only along the border with Finland in the far North, and as domestic migrants due to unemployment in the North. Depending on definition they are reported
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by Sweden in the 13th century, Finland gradually came under Swedish rule and Finns in Finland and Sweden became subjugates of Sweden. Already in the 1400s, a sizeable population of Stockholm spoke Finnish, and around 4% in the 1700s. Finland remained a part of Sweden until 1809 when the peace after
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and their offspring, who at the end of the 20th century numbered almost 200,000 first-generation immigrants, and about 250,000 second-generation immigrants. Of these some 200,000–250,000 are estimated to be able to speak Finnish, and 100,000 remain
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The national minority of Sweden Finns usually does not include immigrated Swedish-speaking Finns, and the national minority of Sweden Finns is protected by Swedish laws that grant specific rights to speakers of the
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when the Finnish Church in Stockholm was founded in 1533, although earlier migration, and migration to other cities in present-day Sweden, remain undisputed. (Strictly speaking this was not a case of
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has been established and taught, which has given reason to critical remarks from Finland, along the line that standard Finnish would be of more use for the students.
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where Finnish immigrants make up a considerable share of the population, but not in the rest of Sweden.
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In the Swedish mindset, the term "Sweden Finns" historically denominated primarily the (previously)
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who ended up on the Swedish side of the border when Sweden was partitioned in 1809, after the
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one parent who was born in Finland. In 2017 that number was 720,000. Like the
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Areas with Finnish-speaking population in percent, in southern Sweden, 2005
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are singled out as a separate linguistic minority by Swedish authorities.
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cultivation was suitable. This was part of an effort of the Swedish king
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was created. These Finnish-speakers are chiefly categorized as either
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originating at the Finnish–Swedish border in the far north, or
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Lag (2009:724) om nationella minoriteter och minoritetsspråk
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Communities of Finns in Sweden can be traced back to the
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In the 1600s, there were plans to set up a new region
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from Finland. Most of them came to Sweden during the
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Index

Swedish-speaking population of Finland

Stockholm
Gothenburg
Eskilstuna
Västerås
Södertälje
Borås
Uppsala
Botkyrka Municipality
Huddinge Municipality
Haninge Municipality
Finnish
Sweden Finnish
Swedish
Lutheranism
Finns
Finnish
Swedish
Sweden
Swedish language
Finnish language
Gulf of Bothnia
military campaigns in Finland
Finnish War
Russian Empire
Torne river
Finnish
children were evacuated
Winter War

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