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Should not Finland Swedes be considered a separate ethnicity than Swedes and thereby be listed as a separate ethnicity, after the Swedish ethnicity?

For example in this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_Swedish , Finland Swedes are classed as their own ethnicity 2001:14BB:C3:B18C:0:0:302:7401 (talk) 22:51, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why? Swedish speakers in Finland are those who ended up on the Eastern side of a border drawn in 1810. Jeppiz (talk) 22:58, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's a little more complicated than that and a question of identity in terms of who can trace how much to where and what nationality you have versus language and culture you have, for instance. 83.252.33.196 (talk) 03:12, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In the first paragraph it's stated that It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countries overall. I don't know what the ending wants to say. Maybe that Swedish has the most speakers of any language in the Nordic countries?

In addition, the source for that sentence (https://wordminds.com/blog/difference-nordic-languages) is terrible. It's even terribly terrible. The errors in that source are plenty. (They start in the second paragraph by stating that Finno-Ugric languages are Nordic languages. The errors continue throughout the page. One example is that it claims that Icelandic is the least spoken among the North Germanic languages. Another is the astonishingly stupid claim that Meänkieli is not used outside of schools.) Fomalhaut76 (talk) 15:19, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]