Swedish is now officially considered the main language in Sweden, according to a new language law which, along with more than two dozen other laws, took effect on Wednesday.

Swedish has been sounding more and more English in recent years. In this two-part report, we will look at the phenomenon from different angles. The first part is about language politics--just what ...

But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to incorporate the region's minority ...

Learning a language is undeniably one of the best ways to integrate, but as Sweden's Migration Committee proposes making Swedish skills a requirement for permanent residence, Catherine Edwards argues ...

The two main official languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. The University of Helsinki is a bilingual university with Finnish and Swedish as the official languages of instruction and ...

Sweden’s government has proposed making formal Swedish language tests part of the process for gaining Swedish citizenship, but it could take until 2025 for any change to be implemented.

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 ...

A Taloustutkimus survey for Yle of how Finnish residents assess their Swedish language skills and how useful they found the language revealed that nearly half of respondents found the language ...