title: Languages of Åland
text: # Languages of Åland
  
  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. Finnish also has a presence, although it is small; only about 5% of Ålanders are Finnish-speaking.
  
  | Mother tongue |
  | - |
  | Mother tongue | 2000 | 2000 | 2010 | 2010 | 2020 | 2020 |
  | Mother tongue | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % |
  | Swedish | 24,169 | 93.77% | 25,173 | 89.88% | 25,986 | 86.25% |
  | Finnish | 1,238 | 4.8% | 1,373 | 4.9% | 1,405 | 4.66% |
  | Romanian | 2 | 0.01% | 166 | 0.59% | 501 | 1.66% |
  | Latvian | 5 | 0.02% | 195 | 0.7% | 443 | 1.47% |
  | Estonian | 23 | 0.09% | 138 | 0.49% | 206 | 0.68% |
  | English | 69 | 0.27% | 97 | 0.35% | 164 | 0.54% |
  | Norwegian | 36 | 0.14% | 34 | 0.12% | 41 | 0.14% |
  | Other | 234 | 0.91% | 831 | 2.97% | 1,424 | 4.73% |
  
  There are 59 spoken native languages in 2020 (with a total population of 29,884):
  
  * Swedish: 25,986
  * Finnish: 1,405
  * Romanian: 520
  * Latvian: 443
  * Estonian: 206
  * English: 160
  * Thai: 159
  * Russian: 158
  * German: 115
  * Arabic: 107
  * Tagalog: 81
  * Serbo-Croatian: 79
  * Polish: 69
  * Farsi: 55
  * Spanish: 55
  * Ukrainian: 53
  * Albanian: 45
  * Kurdish: 45
  * Norwegian: 42
  * Portuguese: 32
  * Lithuanian: 31
  * Vietnamese: 27
  * Italian: 22
  * Hindi: 19
  * Danish: 17
  * Chinese: 15
  * Turkish: 15
  * Bulgarian: 11
  * Dutch: 11
  * French: 10
  * Greek: 10
  * Malayalam: 10
  * Icelandic: 9
  * Slovak: 8
  * Swahili: 8
  * Urdu: 6
  * Kinyarwanda: 6
  * Faroese: 5
  * Indonesian: 4
  * Catalan: 4
  * Macedonian: 4
  * Azerbaijani: 3
  * Luganda: 3
  * Kikuyu: 2
  * Nepali: 2
  * Amharic: 1
  * Armenian: 1
  * Burmese: 1
  * Hausa: 1
  * Ido: 1
  * Igbo: 1
  * Lingala: 1
  * Malay: 1
  * Maltese: 1
  * Tamil: 1
  * Tatar: 1
  * Czech: 1
  * Others: 11
  
  While the number of Swedish-speakers grew from 24,169 in 2000 to 25,862 in 2019, their percentage has dropped from 93.7% in 2000 to 86.5% in 2019. For Finnish, the percentage and number of speakers has been about same (from 1,238 to 1,401; from 4.8% to 4.7%). The percentage of speakers of other languages grew from 1.5% in 2000 to 8.8% in 2019.
  
  