Finnish

In Sweden, Finnish, Meänkieli and Sami are covered by Part III of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, each with an "administrative area"; since their introduction in 2010, these areas have grown through voluntary affiliation and included 85 municipalities and 15 regions in 2026¹. In these areas, individuals may use their minority language with the authorities concerned and are entitled to preschool and elderly care wholly or largely in that language¹.

In these areas, individuals may use their minority language with the authorities concerned and are entitled to preschool and elderly care wholly or largely in that language¹.

In 2023–24, 4,561 compulsory-school pupils took mother-tongue tuition in Finnish, out of 8,278 entitled (55%); 62 students graduated from upper secondary in 2022–23 with a grade in Finnish as mother tongue¹. Since 2019 preschool children have the right to develop their mother tongue, and municipalities in the administrative areas must offer, on request, a preschool place wholly or largely in Finnish¹.

In 2025 the Swedish public broadcasters (Sveriges Radio, SVT and UR) broadcast or provided 7,938 hours of programmes in Finnish, 4,796 of them first broadcasts; TV Finland, which relayed Finland's public broadcaster Yle, did not apply for a licence for 2026–2033 and is no longer on the terrestrial network¹.