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Sweden’s Recognised Minorities — a note

Comparison

⚠ A WARNING ROW. Sweden recognises five national minorities and five minority languages: SÁMI (an Indigenous people, with Northern, Lule, Pite, Ume and South Sámi); SWEDISH FINNS (Finnish); TORNEDALIANS (Meänkieli, a recognised language, not a Finnish dialect here); ROMA (Romani chib); and JEWS (Yiddish). Their foodways are separate systems in this corpus. Sámi foodways in particular are a ROOT and are never modelled as a branch of Swedish foodways.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

Languages: Swedish, Northern Sami, Meänkieli, Romani, Yiddish

What is recorded

  • Sweden recognises five national minorities — Sámi, Swedish Finns, Tornedalians, Roma and Jews — and five minority languages, including Meänkieli as a language in its own right rather than a dialect of Finnish. Each is modelled as a distinct foodways system or community row. documented

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