KansalaisuuskurssiGlossary · Chapter 1: The country of Finland
kaksikielinen kunta
Finnish word. In English: bilingual municipality
A municipality where both Finnish and Swedish are official languages.
Facts about the word
- A municipality is bilingual when at least 8% of its residents, or 3,000 residents, speak the minority language as their mother tongue. Kuntaliitto
- The Government decides the language status of municipalities for ten years at a time. Kuntaliitto
- Bilingual municipalities are on the southern and western coasts. There you can also use Swedish in municipal services. InfoFinland
The facts come from public sources, such as the authorities' own pages and the law.
Try the word in a sentence
Only one of the sentences uses the word correctly. Which one?
In a bilingual municipality you get services in Finnish and Swedish. Residents do not have to know both, and the municipality does not speak by itself.
The word belongs to Chapter 1: The country of Finland. The chapter page has the full context and practice questions.
