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Old Apr 12, 2007 | 11:44 am
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
I've yet to meet a Finn under 65 who doesn't speak some Swedish.
And I've yet got to meet a Finn (Swede/Norwegian/Dane/German/Austrian) under 65 who doesn't speak at least some English... but that doesn't make these countries part of the English-speaking world. :-)

According to Finnish people I know, Swedish is very much on the decline as a native language in Finland. A lot of families that were Swedish-speaking a generation ago are now Finnish-speaking as a result of mixed marriages (or so I am told). The fact that lots of Finns speak Swedish (along with English) as a foreign language is a different matter entirely.
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