Swedish in Finland

[Petri Kanninen]

HARRY:
>How many Swedish-speaking people are there in Finland? (Or maybe they >are 
>"officially" non-existant?)

Actually everyone in Finland should speak Swedish because it's mandatory at 
school. ;-)

>Related question: does the Swedish Kalle Anka get published in Finland?

Sure does, at least at the coast where the largest Swedish-speaking 
population is. Here in Helsinki you can buy Kalle Anka and Kalle Ankas 
Pocketbok even in every bigger foodstore. If you go to a bookstore you find 
also other Swedish Disney comics, for example the golden books, a 100-pages 
long pocketbook and some albums. From the biggest bookstore (Akateeminen 
kirjakauppa) you can also find few German publications. One of them was a 
really nice suprise. It is called Die göttliche Entenkömedie (The Divine 
Duckcomedy) and it contains the famous Italian story L'inferno di Topolino 
(I TL    7-A). All those years learning German were useful after all. :-)
But then again in Lahti where my parents live (100km inland from Helsinki), 
there is no Swedish comics available (because almost no one speaks Swedish 
as his/hers mother tongue there).

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