Swedophone

1. not comparableSwedish-speaking.

   Studies in Swedophone Literature and Culture

   2016, The Reception of Byzantium in European Culture since 1500

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   The Swedophone part of the population (approximately 13 percent in 1900)

   2007, Bjarne Thorup Thomsen, Centring on the Peripheries, page 40

   Over half the population are Swedophone in Jakobstad (Finnish: Pietarsaari), one of the most distinctive and enchanting spots on this part of the Finnish west coast known as parallelsverige (parallel Sweden).

   2015, Lonely Planet Scandinavia

plural Swedophones

1. A speaker of Swedish.

   Swedophones may turn to the works of Christian Palme and Bo Pellnäs.

   2005, Sabrina P. Ramet, Thinking about Yugoslavia, page 311

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   These people would then have been forced to abandon their language and become Swedophones.

   2006, Carl O. Nordling, Finland: The Making of a Nation, page 98

   To ensure the survival of their language, the Swedophones now had to assert their right to be part of that country

   2007, Bjarne Thorup Thomsen, Centring on the Peripheries, page 42