Editing Swedish language (section)

===Finland Swedish===
{{Main|Finland Swedish|Åland Swedish}}
Finland was a part of Sweden from the 13th century until the loss of the Finnish territories to [[Russia]] in 1809. Swedish was the sole administrative language until 1902 as well as the dominant language of culture and education until Finnish independence in 1917. The percentage of Swedish speakers in Finland has steadily decreased since then. The Swedish-speaking population is mainly concentrated in the coastal areas of Ostrobothnia, [[Southwest Finland]] and [[Uusimaa|Nyland]] where the percentage of Finland Swedes partly is high, with Swedish being spoken by more than 90% of the population in several municipalities, and on Åland, where Swedish is spoken by a vast majority of the population and is the only official language. Swedish is an official language also in the rest of Finland, though, with the same official status as [[Finnish language|Finnish]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.finlex.fi/sv/lagstiftning/1999/731 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009035525/http://www.finlex.fi/sv/laki/ajantasa/1999/19990731 |archive-date=9 October 2017 |url-status=live |title=Finlands grundlag – Constitution of Finland}} 17 § Rätt till eget språk och egen kultur Finlands nationalspråk är finska och svenska. Vars och ens rätt att hos domstol och andra myndigheter i egen sak använda sitt eget språk, antingen finska eller svenska, samt att få expeditioner på detta språk skall tryggas genom lag. Det allmänna skall tillgodose landets finskspråkiga och svenskspråkiga befolknings kulturella och samhälleliga behov enligt lika grunder.</ref> The country's public broadcaster, [[Yle]], provides two Swedish-language radio stations, [[Yle Vega]] and [[Yle X3M]], as well a TV channel, [[Yle Fem]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://svenska.yle.fi/| title = Svenska Yle, scroll to the bottom of the page| access-date = 27 October 2016| archive-date = 26 July 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160726004333/https://svenska.yle.fi/| url-status = live}}</ref>