J. Anderson wrote:
> "Dave Heil" <k8mn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:H8Qlk.2328$yb5.2040@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>>The Swedish speaking minority makes up only about six percent of the
>>population. For the most part, even Swedes have a tough time
>>understanding their Swedish.
>
>
> 'For the most part', indeed.
>
> For the most part non-dialectal Swedish as spoken in Finland is
considered
> the most universally intelligible idiom within the Nordic area, i.e.
easiest
> to understand for the greatest number of Nordics.
>
>
Icelanders, who speak Swedish as a second (or third etc) language seem
to all speak it as colloquial finlandssvenska. I loved to listen to
former president Vigdis Finnbogadottir, who spoke beautiful fluent
finlandssvenka also when addressing rikssvenskar.
valtsu
