Fun bonus:
Most people are unaware that there is a significant Swedish speaking population of some parts of Finland.
Alva Elle is from Österbotten with a 51.2% Swedish speaking majority!
About 5% of the total population is Swedish speaking.
Finland Swedish has quite a few differences from normal Swedish, much like Scots and English or Afrikaans and Dutch.
By law in Finland if the Swedish speaking minority has increased into at least 3,000 persons or 8% of inhabitants, then the municipality must become bilingual in Swedish and Finnish.
If the minority has fallen below 3,000 persons and 6% of inhabitants, then the municipality becomes monolingual, unless it decides to keep its bilingual status. At present, only one such municipality has done so, namely Lohja (Lojo in Swedish).
Yle X3M is a radio station from Finland's public broadcaster that broadcasts in Finland Swedish that I'm quite a fan of... :)
Some other Swedish Speaking Finns you might know are:
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel and Fredrik Idestam, the founder of Nokia!
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