Erkheikki lies in the municipality of Pajala, one of the so-called administrative areas for the minority language Meänkieli. For more information on how the coronavirus/Covid-19 is affecting Sweden, please go to krisinformation.se, official emergency information from Swedish authorities. The public sector has a particular responsibility to protect and promote the minority languages and should support and promote the preservation and development of minorities’ cultural identities. By Oishimaya Sen Nag on August 1 2017 in Society. Sweden also has five officially recognized minority languages: Sami, Meänkieli, Finnish, Romani Chib and Yiddish. Finnish became a minority language in western Sweden as many Finnish speakers migrated there for economic reasons. Yiddish is a Germanic language with significant Hebrew and Slavic influence, written with a variant of the Hebrew alphabet (see Yiddish orthography) and, formerly, spoken by most Ashkenazic Jews (although most now speak the language of the country in which they live). In total, more than 200 languages are estimated to be spoken across the county, including regional languages, indigenous Sámi languages, and immigrant languages.[3]. Many of Sweden's administrative and social institutions, including the education system, were organised along the German and Prussian model, as many Swedish pioneering intellectuals of the 17th century were educated in German universities. The Sámi people (formerly known as Lapps) are a people indigenous to Scandinavia and the Kola peninsula (see Sápmi) who speak a related group of languages, three of which — Lule, Northern, and Southern Sámi — are spoken in Sweden. Soon English became a more popular foreign language of Sweden. Modern Gutnish or Gotlandic exists as a spoken language in Gotland and Fårö. [23][24] This has also triggered opposition: in 2002 the Swedish government proposed an action plan to strengthen the status of Swedish[25][26] and in 2009 Swedish was announced the official language of the country for the first time in its history. All maps, graphics, flags, photos and original descriptions © 2020 worldatlas.com. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "kielineuvosto, finska, jidisch, romani, teckenspråk, samiska - Institutet för språk och folkminnen", "SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 386 Europeans and their Languages", "Swedish becomes official 'main language", "Tilastojen kertomaa: RUOTSINSUOMALAISET 2009 - Sisuradio", "English spoken — fast ibland hellre än bra", "Swedes 'best in the world' at English - again", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Sweden&oldid=968477312, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown, Articles lacking in-text citations from October 2017, Wikipedia references cleanup from June 2020, Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from June 2020, All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2019, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2016, Articles needing additional references from June 2020, All articles needing additional references, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2009, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 July 2020, at 17:02.

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