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Finland Swedish

version of Swedish used in Finland by Swedish-speaking Finns
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Finland Swedish

Summary

Finland Swedish is a dialect group[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of dialect_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (475 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Finland Swedish is in the country of Finland[3].
  • Finland Swedish's instance of is recorded as dialect group[4].
  • Finland Swedish is a type of Eastern Swedish[5].
  • Finland Swedish's Commons category is recorded as Finland Swedish[6].
  • Finland Swedish's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Finland Swedish[7].
  • Finland Swedish's language regulatory body is recorded as Institute for the Languages of Finland[8].
  • Finland Swedish's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+286900'}[9].
  • Finland Swedish's different from is recorded as mandatory Swedish[10].
  • Finland Swedish's indigenous to is recorded as Finland[11].
  • Finland Swedish's indigenous to is recorded as Finland Swedes[12].
  • Finland Swedish's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-352734450[13].
  • Finland Swedish's dialect of is recorded as Swedish[14].

Body

Definition and Type

Finland Swedish's instance of is recorded as dialect group[4]. It is a type of Eastern Swedish[5].

Why It Matters

Finland Swedish ranks in the top 10% of dialect_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (475 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Finland Institute for the Languages of Finland Linus Torvalds

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . tilastokeskus.fi. tilastokeskus.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Finland
    Dialect of → Swedish
    Country → —
    Indigenous to → Finland, Finland Swedes
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 12864, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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