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Åland, an autonomous region of Finland, has the largest Swedish-speaking majority in Finland, with about 88% of the province, or about 25,500 people, speaking Swedish as their first language (specifically the Åland Swedish dialect). Swedish is also the sole official language of the province.〔(Självstyrelselag för Åland 16.8.1991/1144 - 36 § ). Retrieved 2010-06-30.〕 Finnish, of course, also has a presence, although it is small; only 5% of Ålanders are Finnish-speaking. The ten most spoken languages in 2014 (with a total population of 28,916):〔(Population by language 31 December 2014 )〕 * Swedish: 25,531 (88.29%) * Finnish: 1,399 (4.84%) * Latvian: 295 (1.02%) * Romanian: 295 (1.02%) * Estonian: 194 (0.67%) * Russian: 139 (0.48%) * Thai: 135 (0.47%) * English: 111 (0.38%) * German: 96 (0.33%) * Kurdish: 67 (0.23%) While the number of Swedish-speakers grew from 24,169 in 2000 to 25,531 in 2014, their percentage has dropped from 93.7% in 2000 to 88.3% in 2014. For Finnish, the percentage and number of speakers has been same (from 1,238 to 1,399; 4.8%). The percentage of speakers of other languages grew from 1.5% in 2000 to 6.9% in 2014.〔 ==External links== * (Languages of Åland ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Languages of Åland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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