able to understand Meänkieli, at least to some level. While some other estimates put the number around 30,000. In Sweden, Meänkieli consists of three dialect...

Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. Kven, which like Meänkieli is mutually...

the official status of the five national minority languages — Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sámi languages and Yiddish — and Swedish Sign Language. For most...

official minority languages: Finnish, Sámi languages, Romani, Yiddish, and Meänkieli (Tornedal Finnish). The Swedish language dominates commercial and cultural...

the large share of Meänkieli-speaking population in it. Torne Valley should not be confused with Torne Valley Sub-region. Meänkieli surnames and village...

language for Meänkieli has been created that is based around the dialects around Pajala, Övertorneå and Haparanda, which has been used in Meänkieli literature...

Norrbotten County (Swedish: Norrbottens län, Meänkieli/Finnish: Norrbottenin lääni, Northern Sami: Norrbottena leatna) is the northernmost county or län...

spoken in Norway was considered a dialect of Finnish, much like the Finnic Meänkieli language spoken in northern Sweden. Today, both are officially recognised...

speaking Meänkieli in school was revoked by the Riksdag in 1957. No equivalent ban was ever instituted in Finland, however what is now called meänkieli was...

the Meänmaa (Torne valley) region and was in past times unilingually Meänkieli-speaking. While it is still spoken by many, after the Swedification policies...