Åland dialects (Swedish: åländska) are dialects of Swedish spoken in Åland, an autonomous province of Finland. The Åland dialects have similarities to...

for Finland Swedish. Today, Swedish dialects are spoken in four different regions in Finland: Ostrobothnia, Åland, Southwest Finland and Uusimaa. Swedish...

tournament hosted in Eckerö. The Åland Stags is Åland's only rugby union club. Disc golf is popular in Åland. The coat of arms of Åland features a golden red deer...

song festival in Mariehamn 1922. In Åland, the song is mostly sung on Midsummer's Eve and on the national day of Åland on 9 June. The song originally had...

three separate "dialect" areas: The Tiundaland (in the north), Attundaland (in the southeast) and Fjädrundraland (in the southwest) dialects. Usage has declined...

in 19 municipalities, 16 of which are located in Åland, Swedish is the sole official language. Åland county is an autonomous region of Finland. According...

people, speaking Swedish as their first language (specifically the Åland Swedish dialect). Swedish is also the sole official language of the province. Finnish...

prestige dialects) that are used in official contexts. The major regional variants include those of South Sweden (based on South Swedish dialects), Western...

bounded by the Baltic Sea facing Åland. There was also a modern region by the name Finland Proper. Southwest Finnish dialects are spoken in Southwest Finland...

Swedish is the main language of 5.2% of the population in 2022 (92.4% in the Åland autonomous province), down from 14% at the beginning of the 20th century...

Norrland dialects and Svealand Swedish runs through Hälsingland, such that the northern Hälsingland dialects are regarded as Norrland dialects and the...

well as moribundity and extinction of several of its dialects. In the 21st century, German dialects are dying out as Standard German gains primacy. The...

Finland-Swedish, spoken in Finland. Outside the autonomous island province of Åland, which is officially monolingually Swedish, Ostrobothnia is the only region...

distant dialects. This is because they have two official written standards, in addition to the habit of strongly holding on to local dialects. The people...

constitute a dialectal continuum and some of the traditional Swedish dialects could equally be described as Danish (Scanian) or Norwegian dialects (Jämtlandic)...

encompasses both a standard language and distinct dialects that are mutually intelligible with the dialects spoken in Sweden and, to a lesser extent, other...

suttana). The dialect of Ajaccio has been described as in transition. The dialects spoken at Calvi and Bonifacio (Bonifacino) are dialects of the Ligurian...

Vietnamese alphabet, it represents the sound /z/ in northern dialects or /j/ in southern dialects. In Fijian, it represents a prenasalized stop /ⁿd/. In some...

regions of Satakunta, Pirkanmaa, Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme), Uusimaa, and Åland. The region's capital and most populous city is Turku, which was the capital...

main dialects, Sahidic and Bohairic, are the most important for the study of early versions of the New Testament. The Sahidic was the leading dialect in...

it is part of the alphabets used for some Alemannic and Austro-Bavarian dialects of German. Though Å is derived from A by adding an overring, it is typically...

Québécois) "Old" dialects Quebec City dialect (Québec city and surroundings) Rimouski dialect Western-Central dialects Central dialect Western dialect (includes...

the British and French navies bombed the Finnish coast and Åland during the so-called Åland War. Although Swedish was still widely spoken, the Finnish...

Hebrew Bible itself. Whereas the Classical Greek city states used different dialects of Greek, a common standard, called Koine (κοινή "common"), developed gradually...

Swedish and German the Norwegian, Danish and Swedish over-ring Å (as in Åland), the å vowel sound (usually /ͻː/) the Romanian Ș (as in Chișinău), the...

transmit the complete New Testament in the Middle Egyptian dialects. One of them, in the Fayumic dialect, contains only John 6:11–15:11 (with gaps). A manuscript...

Pettersson (8 June 1892 – 5 January 1937) was a painter and writer on the Åland Islands, Finland. He remained an obscure figure during his lifetime; most...

majority (the other being the constitutionally monolingual province of Åland); Swedish-speakers make up 51.2% of the total population. The region contains...

However, Swedish is the only official language on the autonomous island of Åland. As of 2023[update], 558,294 people, or 10.0%, live in Finland with a first...

century. Besides Syriac, there are Bible translations into other Aramaic dialects. Syria played an important or even predominant role in the beginning of...