However, this may be a historic shift for Sweden. "For as long as Sweden has existed, Finnish has been the second language," Parkvall said, adding that this dominance of the Finnish language in ...

English remains the most popular foreign language for Finnish comprehensive school pupils. According to figures released by Statistics Finland, over 99 percent of students in secondary education ...

Swedish is Finland's second official language and learning it is normally obligatory in primary school. The Finnish National Agency for Education says the semi-rural municipalities of Jämsä, Kaustinen ...

The state of Finland is not a very old construction; for centuries, what is now Finland was under the Swedish kingdom. While Swedish was the language of the upper class, Finnish came to be ...

Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, says Finnish language in Sweden goes back at least 1,000 years, but Arabic-speakers increasing rapidly ...