Is Swedish spoken in Turku?
In big cities with a significant Swedish-speaking population such as Helsinki and Turku, most of them are fluent in both Swedish and Finnish. Although in some municipalities Swedish is the only official language, Finnish is the dominant language in most towns and at most employers in Finland.
What percentage of Finnish speaks Swedish?
Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. Approximately 87\% of Finns speak Finnish as their native language. Approximately 5\% of Finns speak Swedish as their native language.
Is Swedish spoken in Helsinki?
Helsinki, the capital, had a Swedish-speaking majority until late in the 19th century. Currently 5.9\% of the population of Helsinki are native Swedish speakers and 15\% are native speakers of languages other than Finnish and Swedish. The Swedish dialects spoken in Finland mainland are known as Finland-Swedish.
What language do they speak in Turku?
Turku
| Turku Turku – Åbo | |
|---|---|
| • Metro | 330,192 |
| Population by native language | |
| • Finnish | 88.1\% (official) |
| • Swedish | 5.2\% (official) |
Do Swedes know Finnish?
The language of Finland belongs to a different family. Finnish is close to Estonian and Hungarian. Most people in Finland know Swedish, so the Finns can understand the Swedes, but most Swedes cannot understand Finnish.
Is Finnish language hard to learn?
Compared to these tongue-twisters, Finnish is somewhat easier – but still not among the easiest, as FSI estimates it would take 44 weeks or 1100 hours before a learner would feel confident enough join the conversation at the office coffee machine. The FSI ranking also lists the easiest languages to learn.
Is Finnish like Swedish?
Norwegian and Swedish are similar (though not mutually intelligible) and Finnish is not similar to either one. They belong to the Germanic family and specifically, to the Northern Germanic branch (along with Danish, Icelandic and Faroese, the latter two being Insular).