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LinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and AndrewLinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and AndrewPosted Sep 1, 2010 0:01 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: LinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and Andrew by dskoll Parent article: LinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and Andrew
I've read somewhere he was brought up in a Swedish-speaking part of Finland.
Swedish is one of the official languages of Finland. Finnish is also one of the official languages of Sweden. It's an interesting mix since Finnish is not even an Indo-European language.
Wikipedia has an incredible amount of information about natural languages.
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LinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and Andrew Posted Sep 1, 2010 1:32 UTC (Wed) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link] Correction Finnish is not an official language in Sweden. Finnish is an official minority language in parts of Sweden. See Wikipedia for more information (The Swedish article is better and has a map of affected areas.). Swedish is however an official language in Finland, legally on equal footing with Finnish, but in practice the secondary language in most of Finland, and the primary language only in a few municipalities.
LinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and Andrew Posted Sep 1, 2010 5:53 UTC (Wed) by busman (subscriber, #7333) [Link]
> I've read somewhere he was brought up in a Swedish-speaking part of Finland.
Linux was brought up in Helsinki (Finnish capital) and while being officially a bilingual city (all street signs are in finnish and swedish) only ~7% of the population speaks swedish as their mother tongue. So it hardly qualifies as a "swedish-speaking part of Finland" ;)
LinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and Andrew Posted Sep 1, 2010 12:58 UTC (Wed) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
I'm thankful for those Swedish signs as they're a lot easier to decipher for those of us who know English and German.
LinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and Andrew Posted Sep 9, 2010 14:17 UTC (Thu) by engla (guest, #47454) [Link]
And this is maybe Linus' point. Swedish has a closer relasionship to big western languages, such as english, and finnish is way more obscure (is said to be impossible to master if you are not born in a finnish-speaking family). A finnish-speaking linux kernel mailing list would truly be impossible for outsiders to understand.
LinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and Andrew Posted Sep 9, 2010 14:15 UTC (Thu) by engla (guest, #47454) [Link]
Helsinki is an area where you are likely to find swedish-speaking finns; unlike inland Finland. See map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Svenskfinland_municipal...
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