[lg policy] True Finns Call for Monolingual Finland

[Harold Schiffman]

True Finns Call for Monolingual Finland

published yesterday 07:53 AM, updated yesterday 12:59 PM



The youth organisation of the True Finns Party is calling for Finnish
to be the country's only official language. The party adopted a
resolution that Swedish should no longer be Finland’s second official
language at its congress in Vaasa over the weekend. The party wants
Swedish downgraded to a minority language status, such as Sami, Roma
and sign language. Vesa-Matti Saarakkala, the chair of the True Finns’
youth organisation, says the resources spent on maintaining
Swedish-language services are unreasonable. He points to the cost of
supporting YLE’s Swedish-language service as one such example.

He argues that the special status of Swedish should be downgraded as
it may prompt Russians living in Finland to demand a similar status
for the Russian language. The True Finns’ Youth Organisation says
Finland has failed in its language policy since it doesn’t reflect
reality.

http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2009/10/true_finns_call_for_monolingual_finland_1073130.html

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