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Sweden

Swedish, the official language, is the first language of 93% of the 9m population of Sweden. The principal minority languages are Finnish, spoken by around 3% of the population, mostly situated in the north east, and Sami, a language related to Finnish, spoken by around 0.1% of the Swedish population, mainly living in the north.

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