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White: unilingually Finnish municipalities
Licht blue: bilingual municipalities wi a Finnish majority
Bricht blue: bilingual municipalities wi a Swadish majority
Daurk blue: unilingually (92-94%) Swadish municipalities
Mair nor 17,000 Swadish-speakin Finns bide in offeecially monolingual Finnish municipalities, an are thus nae representit on the map.
Finland Swadish (Swadish: finlandssvenska) is a braid term fir the wheen o Swadis dialecs spake in Finland bi Swadish-spikkin Finns as thair mither tongue. Maist o these dialecs an thaim that are spake in Swaden unnerstaun ilk ither nae bauther, but some ae thaim awa up in Ostrobothnie are a gey bit haurd tae unnerstaun fir Swadish-spikkin fowk frae ither airts. Maist Swadish-spikkin Finns dinna think o Finland Swadish as a leid apairt frae the Swadish o Swaden, an thay kin scrieve Staundart Swadish nae bauther fir Finland Swadish.
Swadish as spoken in Finland is regulatit bi the Swadish Depairtment o the Research Institute fir the Leids o Finland. This regulation includes the offeecially statit aim o keepin Finland Swadish close tae the Swadish as spoken in Swaden an strangly phrased advice against loanwirds an calques frae Finnish, which are uisually incomprehensible tae Swades.
An aften repeatit "fact" is that the municipality wi the heichest proportion o Swadish speakers in the warld, Hammarland (96%, 2004 est.), is locatit in Finland. Korsnäs haes an aw held this title an is aften citit as sic. Housomeivver, as there are nae offeecial statistics on the mither tongue o inhabitants o Swaden, this is haurd or impossible tae verify an shoud probably be taken wi a grain o salt.
In the spoken slang-leid, especially amang young fowk in Finnish-dominatit auries, Finnish loanwirds as well as calques frae Finnish are frequently incorporatit intae Finland Swadish. There are an aw some wirds in Finland Swadish that wad be considered slichtly archaic in Swaden. Some govrenment an public service terms that hae been creatit in recent centuries an aw differ. The same is true o ither new wirds, notably loanwords frae Inglis.
A common mistake made bi mony Swades is tae mistake Finland Swadish fir Swadish wi a Finnish accent, somethin that can be a considerable source o frustration tae maist Swadish-speakin Finns. Ony leid adopts featurs, especially pronunciation habits, frae dominant leids it comes in touch wi, but mony o the traits o Finland Swadish exist an aw in monolingual auries an some are in fact preserved featurs o auld Swadish. The pronunciation o Finland Swadish bi a Swadish-speakin Finn is different frae that o Finnish speakers pronooncin Swadish as a foreign leid.