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tuukkah | 6 months ago

Nobody claims they all speak Finnish well, but the Swedish spoken in Finland is influenced by Finnish and typically includes some loans from Finnish.

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laurent_du|6 months ago

The person I was answering to literally claims people are bilingual (Swedish + Finnish).

tuukkah|6 months ago

Being bilingual is a fuzzy concept: to many, it includes people who speak a language less well, but perhaps enough to get by.

For example, in a bilingual environment, it can be enough to understand two languages and to speak one.