Languages of Åland
# Languages of Åland

Åland, an autonomous region of Finland, has the largest Swedish-speaking majority in Finland, with about 88% of the province, or about 25,500 people, speaking Swedish as their first language (specifically the Åland Swedish dialect). Swedish is also the sole official language of the province. Finnish also has a presence, although it is small; only about 5% of Ålanders are Finnish-speaking.

| Mother tongue |
| - |
| Mother tongue | 2000 | 2000 | 2010 | 2010 | 2020 | 2020 |
| Mother tongue | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % |
| Swedish | 24,169 | 93.77% | 25,173 | 89.88% | 25,986 | 86.25% |
| Finnish | 1,238 | 4.8% | 1,373 | 4.9% | 1,405 | 4.66% |
| Romanian | 2 | 0.01% | 166 | 0.59% | 501 | 1.66% |
| Latvian | 5 | 0.02% | 195 | 0.7% | 443 | 1.47% |
| Estonian | 23 | 0.09% | 138 | 0.49% | 206 | 0.68% |
| English | 69 | 0.27% | 97 | 0.35% | 164 | 0.54% |
| Norwegian | 36 | 0.14% | 34 | 0.12% | 41 | 0.14% |
| Other | 234 | 0.91% | 831 | 2.97% | 1,424 | 4.73% |

There are 59 spoken native languages in 2020 (with a total population of 29,884):

* Swedish: 25,986
* Finnish: 1,405
* Romanian: 520
* Latvian: 443
* Estonian: 206
* English: 160
* Thai: 159
* Russian: 158
* German: 115
* Arabic: 107
* Tagalog: 81
* Serbo-Croatian: 79
* Polish: 69
* Farsi: 55
* Spanish: 55
* Ukrainian: 53
* Albanian: 45
* Kurdish: 45
* Norwegian: 42
* Portuguese: 32
* Lithuanian: 31
* Vietnamese: 27
* Italian: 22
* Hindi: 19
* Danish: 17
* Chinese: 15
* Turkish: 15
* Bulgarian: 11
* Dutch: 11
* French: 10
* Greek: 10
* Malayalam: 10
* Icelandic: 9
* Slovak: 8
* Swahili: 8
* Urdu: 6
* Kinyarwanda: 6
* Faroese: 5
* Indonesian: 4
* Catalan: 4
* Macedonian: 4
* Azerbaijani: 3
* Luganda: 3
* Kikuyu: 2
* Nepali: 2
* Amharic: 1
* Armenian: 1
* Burmese: 1
* Hausa: 1
* Ido: 1
* Igbo: 1
* Lingala: 1
* Malay: 1
* Maltese: 1
* Tamil: 1
* Tatar: 1
* Czech: 1
* Others: 11

While the number of Swedish-speakers grew from 24,169 in 2000 to 25,862 in 2019, their percentage has dropped from 93.7% in 2000 to 86.5% in 2019. For Finnish, the percentage and number of speakers has been about same (from 1,238 to 1,401; from 4.8% to 4.7%). The percentage of speakers of other languages grew from 1.5% in 2000 to 8.8% in 2019.

