Editing Finland Swedish (section)

== Official status ==
{{Further|Languages of Finland}}

Swedish is one of the two official and national languages of the Republic of Finland, the other being Finnish. These two languages have formally equal status in nearly all legislation, though the status of Swedish in Finland has long been a subject of sociopolitical debate.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hult |first1=F. M. |last2=Pietikäinen |first2=S. |year=2014 |title=Shaping discourses of multilingualism through a language ideological debate: The case of Swedish in Finland |journal=Journal of Language and Politics |volume=13 |pages=1–20|doi=10.1075/jlp.13.1.01hul }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Kolu  |editor-first1=Jaana |editor-last2=Kuronen  |editor-first2=Mikko |editor-last3=Palviainen |editor-first3=Åsa  |year=2016 |title=Svenskan i Finland 16 |series=Jyväskylä Studies in Humanities |volume=298 |publisher= University of Jyväskylä |isbn=978-951-39-6828-1 |url=https://jyx.jyu.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/52296/978-951-39-6828-1.pdf}}</ref> The other minority languages (such as [[Sami languages|Sami]]) are regulated separately.
[[File:Ingå-Sjundeå gräns juni 2021 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Border between bilingual municipalities of [[Siuntio]] and [[Ingå]]: traffic signs are both in Finnish and Swedish. In Siuntio, where the majority of people speak Finnish, the signs are written first in Finnish. In Ingå, the majority language is Swedish, which is reflected in the traffic signs being written in Swedish first.]]
Finland Swedish is regulated by the [[Institute for the Languages of Finland]]. Official Swedish is not supposed to be very different from Swedish as found in Sweden. There are however e.g. words regarded as archaic in Sweden, but commonly used in Finland, and terms that differ from their counterparts in Sweden, often because of slight differences in the related legislation.<ref>{{cite book | author1=Hällström-Reijonen, Charlotta af | author2=Reuter, Mikael | title=Finlandssvensk ordbok | location=Helsingfors | publisher=Schildt & Forskningscentralen för de inhemska språken | year=2008 | isbn=978-951-50-1749-9 | language=sv-FI}}</ref>

Bilingualism of municipalities is regulated by the Language Act of 2003.<ref>Kielilaki 6.6.2003/423 [Language Act of 2003.]</ref> If the minority has increased into at least 3,000 persons or 8% of inhabitants, then the municipality must become bilingual. If the minority has fallen below 3,000 persons and 6% of inhabitants, then the municipality becomes monolingual, unless it decides to keep its bilingual status. At present, only one such municipality has done so, namely [[Lohja]] ({{lang|sv|Lojo}} in Swedish). The status is reviewed once in a decade, and enacted by a government decree issued by the [[Finnish Council of State]].

The country's public broadcaster, [[Yle]], provides two Swedish-language radio stations, [[Yle Vega]] and [[Yle X3M]]. The Swedish-language TV channel [[Yle Fem]] was merged with [[Yle Teema]] in 2017 to form [[Yle Teema & Fem]].