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The description seems a bit misleading; the linked page at http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/europe/suede.htm has a basically identical map, apparently made by Mikael Parkvall in 2005, but not actually any numerical data on the Finnish-speaking population in Sweden. Reimplementing an identical map by putting different colors in a map of the municipalities of Sweden seems pretty near a copyvio to me.

Googling for Mikael Parkvall indicates that he was a student of linguistics at a Swedish university up until around 2005 or so. Newer hits only refer to his books.

Seeing as the northern municipalities of Sweden also have a strong Finnish (and/or Meänkieli) minority, perhaps a map of all of Sweden would be more useful anyway.-- era (Talk | History) 21:08, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't have any problem letting Wikipedia have this picture, though I do dislike Aaker calling it "own work".

Mikael Parkvall (parkvall@ling.su.se) 85.229.15.15 (talk) 01:24, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I deliberately excluded the northernmost municipalities because of the difficulties in computing the number of speakers there (with people having double mother tongues and so on). This is because there are no official language statistics in Sweden, as opposed to most other countries. What I do have is a map of the north as it looked before WWII, when the census last featured a language question. --Mikael Parkvall (talk) 15:40, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]