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Finnish and Swedish in Finnish: comparative linguistic standardisation

Abstract

Finland is officially a bilingual State, its two national languages being Finnish (spoken by 92% of the population) and Swedish (6%). The main normative institution, the Institute for the Languages of Finland, hosts the Language Boards and the Language Offices for both languages. These public services are responsible for language planning of the national languages, but their mission has different characteristics due to the history of Finland and its contemporary demolinguistic situation. The Finnish normative tradition has been marked by a purist approach and by the will of maintaining the “autochthonous” properties of the language. Swedish, on the other hand, is a pluricentric language and the grammatical and morphological structures of the Swedish language spoken in Finland are determined according to the norms of the Swedish Academy.

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