Posted on 04/07/2016 12:57:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Officially, Sweden doesn't keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself. What is the most popular non-Swedish language in Sweden?
After poring over various statistics and studies, Parkvall came to a conclusion: Arabic was very likely to now be the second most popular language in the Scandinavian country.
Parkvall's study focused on native languages rather than second languages, which he says are a better judge of what languages are actually spoken in a country (while English is widely spoken in Sweden, relatively few are native speakers). According to Sveriges Radio, in 2012 there were 200,000 people in Sweden who spoke Finnish as their native language, while 155,000 spoke Arabic.
Parkvall told WorldViews that the influx of refugees and migrants from the Middle East has shifted the balance in favor of Arabic over the past few years. Given the lack of hard data, it's hard to say exactly when Arabic will overtake Finnish, Parkvall said, but he offered an estimate: "Sort of now."
Sweden isn't the only European country to have Arabic as a second most spoken language. Parkvall's research found it was the same in Denmark and that Arabic was the third most spoken language in France and the Netherlands.
However, this may be a historic shift for Sweden. "For as long as Sweden has existed, Finnish has been the second language," Parkvall said, adding that this dominance of the Finnish language in Sweden goes back at least 1,000 years. Now, Finnish is dwindling, with the majority of modern speakers -- Finnish immigrants who moved to Sweden in the 1960s and 70s -- dying out and their children speaking the language rarely, if at all.
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Same like in the US. Spanish is the second language. If stores refused to have dual signs in both English and Spanish they’d be accused of racism. Why should I have to press “1” for English when calling any business?
She told me that everyone in Sweden speaks English and that it is required in all schools.
Of course what people speak at home is likely what this article intends to present.
Read the small text in the corner.
MIKAEL!! I met him back in... I think it was 1998 or 1999, when he was still a grad student (a gorgeous one, I don’t mind saying.) One of the most witty, intelligent young men I’ve ever known. He’s blazing in English and it’s not even his native language. Ah. He was so cute I took a picture of him and kept it for... a couple years, I confess.
Simon the Kenyan is fathering the child of Klara and Sven. What’s wrong with Sven? Doesn’t like girls?
The Finns won’t rape the women, set fires or chop heads off. The new arrivals will.
It is the Viking woman.
They will rise up a against the scourge
It’s coming
It shows the devastating effectiveness of a few generations of brainwashing at all levels. We are amazed to see Norks weeping and wailing over their Dear Leader, going spastic in rapture or sorrow, but the Swedes have been just as effectively brainwashed. Sven probably helps Oogoo to get it up, thrilled to help stamp out the stain and sin of pure whiteness.
No they won’t. See 14. They would march into a river and drown themselves if they were told that they must, to erase the original sin of snow whiteness from the earth.
I agree, that's a key point in all of this. Maybe Sven prefers Internet porn to the effort of a real personal relationship with Karla.
Many of the reports on the Moslem sex crimes in Europe have pointed out that women are still supportive of unlimited admission of “refugees.” We can’t believe everything we read in the press, of course ...
That too, of course. Much easier, with no complications. As effective as releasing infertile irradiated pest bugs to lead the males astray from their generational requirements.
There is quite a list of maladies that are piling up into a supernode, like deep ocean tsunamis converging on one beach at one time. Folks have little understanding of what may lie ahead. I hope and pray I’m wrong.
The Alienork Way: A cautionary tale for civilized humans facing an Ork invasion
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/01/the-alienork-way/
We have to rely entirely on the alternative new media, and even in this space, allow for deception operations.
It’s going to get very ugly in the next year.
Burning down the house in 2016
http://straightlinelogic.com/2016/02/26/burning-down-the-house-in-2016-by-matt-bracken/
I’ll have a look at your links later. My husband is out of town, taking his mother to the hospital, so he won’t say I’m ignoring him.
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