Talk:Finland Swedish

message: The most logic name of this Swedish dialect would be Finnishswedish, or Finnish-Swedish. The "Finland Swedish" seems very strange, and shoult at least be hyphenated?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.210.244.29 (talk) 00:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: My favourite would be Finland's Swedish. --Mlang.Finn (talk) 15:50, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: We speak about a combination of a country - Finland or Sweden - and a language - Finnish or Swedish. I find it quite logical to put the two words together. Genitive is OK, but  the term in common use is the one without genitive. I cannot judge if the combined word should or should not be hyphenated. "Finnishswedish" sounds to me like a language mix. It would be difficult to remember which is which of "Finnishswedish" and "Swedishfinnish". And the two other combinations "Swedishswedish" and "Finnishfinnish" for the majority language groups in respective countries - are such reduplications really proper English? 188.238.73.179 (talk) 09:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The term “Finland Swedish” seems to be the universally accepted one in English, which makes logical sense: A form of Swedish spoken in Finland. (The part “Finland” can refer only to the country, so you know that it means Swedish spoken in Finland, not Finnish spoken in Sweden.) The terms “Finland Finnish” or “Sweden Swedish” are rarely used because they look too redundant.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 15:49, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Finland Swedish, Finnish Swedish or Finnishswedish?

message: As well as a Finland dialect of Swedish, I've also heard of a Sweden dialect of Finnish. I don't know much about this however, yet. Gringo300 12:41, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: So does standard Finnish. --88.114.252.193 22:34, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I've noted that quite a lot of Swedes have Finnish surnames. Some of them may descend from Forest Finns (not sure if they kept their names), but generally Sweden Finns have only been immigrating since WWII. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 05:32, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Sweden-Finnish?

message: I heard that the Finland-Swedish language regulation is quite different from the approach in Sweden. The official aim is to keep the language similar to the standard swedish spoken in sweden, particularly hard on borrowings or calques from finnish, which would be ununderstandable in Sweden. This approach is different from the swedish academy, which sometimes give recommendations, but mainly accepts the majority usage as the correct one. I think this should be added to the page... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.198.149.127 (talk) 17:17, 10 November 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Mentioned högsvenska (Standard Finland-Swedish) using the article in http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/högsvenska as a source of information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.230.27.24 (talk) 22:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language regulation 

message: I have heard this claim that the municipality in the world that has the largest percentage of Swedish-speakers is in Finland, then then it was claimed to be Närpes. Does anyone know the facts behind this claim? Since we don't have statistics on people's languages in Sweden in the way they do in Finland, I wonder how the comparison is made - and frankly, I doubt that this is correct although often repeated. / Habj 21:39, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess that was from the time when there were many municipalities in Finland where there were no foreigners. But I think it wasn't Närpiö, originally. It has never been without Finnish-speaking minority. I guess originally it was about some Åland's island municipality. --Lalli 10:32, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes this is true, i think in fact both the first and second most swedish-speaking places in the world are in Finland, one of them is on Åland, i think. But i can't find which one it is. It was featured atleast in the tv-show "värsta språket" on swedish television, but apaprently they do not have backlogs enough for the tv-shows on svt.se. But this is pretty much trivia as they are both places with a few hundred inhabitants or something like that so a few finnish speakers or foreigners moving in would change that. Gillis 19:57, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be noted that unlike in Finland those kind of records are not kept in Sweden so there are probably municipalities in Sweden with nearly 100% Swedish speakers. --88.114.252.193 22:36, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most Swedish-speaking municipalities in the world 

message: Hi.  We could use some outside input over at Categories for discussion.  In particular, here we have two people arguing over what to call :Category:Finland-Swedish, and another couple of opinions could be very helpful.  Thanks! -GTBacchus(talk) 20:57, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Input requested 

message: The first three sections, “History”, “Official status”, “Phonology”, have almost no citations. They need some.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 15:44, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Cite