How can we work towards creating more linguistically accessible societies?

Aug 26, 2013 ... The Finnish society uses one language, Finnish, because it is spoken by well over 90 % of the population, even most immigrants study it. It is ... Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. About 85 percent of Finns speak Finnish as their mother tongue. About 5 percent of Finns speak Swedish ... Language skills. To obtain Finnish citizenship, you must have at least satisfactory skills in one of the following languages: spoken and written Finnish ... Finnish was most often spoken outside home environment. In terms of the Kurdish dialects, nineteen interviewees spoke Sorani dialect and came varyingly from ... The purpose of this study is to investigate the prosodic properties of Finland Swedish (hereafter referred to as FS) from spoken L2 assessment perspective. The ... Over 80 percent of the first-generation immigrant students in Finland do not speak the language of instruction at home (OECD, 2015). The aim of this survey is ... Apr 19, 2021 ... Finnish is a Uralic language that is primarily spoken in Finland and Sweden. There are nearly six million native speakers of Finnish, the ... But since in Finland there are two official languages, we can distinguish between Finnish-speaking Finns and Swedish-speaking Finns. Another language that is ... May 10, 2017 ... There are three official languages in Finland – Finnish, Swedish, and Sami – but Finnish is the mother tongue of almost 90 per cent of the ... Aug 17, 2024 ... Finland has two official languages: Finnish and Swedish. Finnish is the native language of the majority of the population, spoken by about 90% ...