Talk:Minority languages of Sweden
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Does anyone have any statistics on what languages are actually spoken most commonly? Preferably a list like the one at Languages in the United States. I think it's Serbo-Croatian (or its variants), Arabic and Turkish are spoken by an order of magnitude more people in Sweden than Romany or Jiddish. This list currently only specifies which languages receive official or semi-official protection. —Gabbe 20:25, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
The romany language is not reffered to as romany in official documents. It is always reffered to as Resandesvenska (litterally Travellers Swedish) and it is supposedly a somwhat different variety of romany. Perhaps this should be noted, I dont really know how different it is from other romany though.
- I think the official minority language is a standard form of Romany, while Traveller's Swedish is mainly Swedish with many Romany loanwords... The languages chosen have a long history in Sweden, while being under a possible threat of extinction, without protection. Several modern languages, such as Serbo-Croatian (or its variants), Arabic (or its variants) and Spanish are probably being spoken by more speakers than most of the languages, excluding Finnish, at least in the bigger cities in the South and Middle of Sweden. Some major languages, such as English , standard German and French has allegedly had a long history of 1st-language speakers enough in Sweden to be classified as minority languages, but since the speakers of these languages haven't had any problems in modern Sweden or had any wishes for that classification, they haven't received that status.
The "romany" langue is infact around 60diffrent dialects/langues combined and isn't only used by gypses, also the Travllers (resande folket) also know as "Tattare" but the use of the word "Tattare" have sadly become to be used as an racial slur. —blambi
