The town was bilingual, with the majority being Swedish speakers (91,7%).

However, among Swedish speakers in general, other regional standards are considered to be "dialects".

Similarly, there are 16,915 reported Swedish speakers in Canada from the 2001 census.

Swedish speakers have migrated to many parts of the world.

As with most non-native speech, native Swedish speakers may pick the wrong word when speaking English based on what sound right in their own language.

Swedish speakers have their own political party in the government and a host of cultural institutions.

"People in Finland don't want to take rights away from Swedish speakers," she said.

The Swedish speakers concede that keeping the bilingual system alive is exhausting, especially because there are so few of them.

Secondly, as the Swedish speaker already said, there is the matter of taxing aviation fuel.

Today this name is very seldom used even among the Swedish speakers.