Åland, an autonomous region of Finland, has the largest Swedish-speaking majority in Finland, with about 88% of the province, or about 25,500 people, speaking Swedish as their first language (specifically the Åland Swedish dialect). Swedish is also the sole official language of the province.Självstyrelselag för Åland 16.8.1991/1144 - 36 §. Retrieved 2010-06-30. Finnish also has a presence, although it is small; only about 5% of Ålanders are Finnish-speaking.
Mother tongue200020102020 Number % Number % Number % Swedish 24,169 25,173 25,986 Finnish 1,238 1,373 1,405 Romanian 2 166 501 Latvian 5 195 443 Estonian 23 138 206 English 69 97 164 Norwegian 36 34 41 Other 234 831 1,424
There are 59 spoken native languages in 2020 (with a total population of 29,884): Swedish: 25,986 Finnish: 1,405 Romanian: 520 Latvian: 443 Estonian: 206 English: 160 Thai: 159 Russian: 158 German: 115 Arabic: 107 Tagalog: 81 Serbo-Croatian: 79 Polish: 69 Farsi: 55 Spanish: 55 Ukrainian: 53 Albanian: 45 Kurdish: 45 Norwegian: 42 Portuguese: 32 Lithuanian: 31 Vietnamese: 27 Italian: 22 Hindi: 19 Danish: 17 Chinese: 15 Turkish: 15 Bulgarian: 11 Dutch: 11 French: 10 Greek: 10 Malayalam: 10 Icelandic: 9 Slovak: 8 Swahili: 8 Urdu: 6 Kinyarwanda: 6 Faroese: 5 Indonesian: 4 Catalan: 4 Macedonian: 4 Azerbaijani: 3 Luganda: 3 Kikuyu: 2 Nepali: 2 Amharic: 1 Armenian: 1 Burmese: 1 Hausa: 1 Ido: 1 Igbo: 1 Lingala: 1 Malay: 1 Maltese: 1 Tamil: 1 Tatar: 1 Czech: 1 Others: 11
While the number of Swedish-speakers grew from 24,169 in 2000 to 25,862 in 2019, their percentage has dropped from 93.7% in 2000 to 86.5% in 2019. For Finnish, the percentage and number of speakers has been about same (from 1,238 to 1,401; from 4.8% to 4.7%). The percentage of speakers of other languages grew from 1.5% in 2000 to 8.8% in 2019.
References
External links Languages of Åland Language regulations