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No, each of the Scandinavian countries has its own language, in Finland it is Finnish. The official languages in Finland are Finnish and Swedish, both of them and English are taught to everyone in schools (immigrants do not always have to study Swedish). In northern Finlands live populations of Sami people who have their own language which is officially recognized in Finland.

The avarage finn is likely to understand basic English and most younger one are able to hold a decent conversation in English but not that many can do that in Swedish.

Also, the other languages spoken in Fennoscandia are quite closely related and speakers of Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are able to understand each other quite a bit but Finnish is completely different and resembles Estonian.

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