Turkish speakers in Sweden

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Turkish speakers in Sweden

dusseaux.antoine_289191, Sun, 2022-03-13 15:28
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"Turkish heritage speakers in Sweden constitute a sizeable minority, but are far from the largest immigrant minority in the country. As Swedish authorities are prohibited from collecting census data regarding ethnicity and speakers of a certain language, the exact number of Turkish speakers is unknown; our own estimate, based on Statistics Sweden (2017), is that there are ca 100,000 Turkish speakers, making up around 1% of Sweden’s 10-million population.2"

Ute Bohnacker (2022) Turkish heritage families in Sweden: language practices and family language policy, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2022.2041646 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01434632.2022.2041646

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We will update the L1 speaker population for Turkish [tur] in Sweden, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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Chuck Fennig, Thu, 2022-03-17 16:44

Dear Antoine,

Thank you for this information on Turkish [tur] in Sweden.

Best regards,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

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