A human-size Moomin house is a popular attraction at the Moomin World theme park in Finland. With its own distinct language and quirky traditions, Finland is in many ways the odd one out of the Nordic ...

Finland's struggles as a bilingual country can hardly be compared to those in Belgium or Canada, but the tiny Swedish-speaking minority is nonetheless concerned the country's second official language ...

Swedish is Finland’s second official language, yet less than 6% of the population are native speakers. This percentage has declined by half over the last century, leaving only 300,000 Swedish-speaking ...

Officially, Sweden doesn't keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself ...