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tions (72) are in Swedish, but more than two-thirds of these are in two or several
languages. The second largest language is Finnish (31). Following are English,
Spanish, Arabic and Persian, with between 10 and 11 periodicals each, and
Kurdish, Turkish and Bosnian, with 8, 7 and 5 periodicals, respectively. Twentyfive
languages (or two-thirds of the 38 languages found in the printed media) are
represented by only one or two periodicals.
A similar pattern appears for community radio, with 23 languages (about twothirds
of the 35 found in this medium) represented by one or two community radio
broadcasters. Further, there are six languages – English, Azerbaijani, Amharic,
Turkish, Tigrinya and Arabic, which are represented by between 3 and 9 community
radio groups each. The largest languages in community radio are Persian (65),
Spanish (35), Kurdish (17), Bosnian (11) and Finnish (10). There are 35 community
radio broadcasters in Swedish, most of which send their programmes in two
or several languages. Here as well we see a rough correspondence between those
languages that are represented by the most community radio groups and the largest
groups of foreign-born residents. It is notable, however, that Finns are much less
active in the community radio sphere than in printed media, and that the opposite
is the case for Kurds, who are twice as active in community radio as in printed
media. Tigrinya and Amharic are relatively highly represented in relation to the size
of these language groups. Among the national minority languages (with the exception
of Finnish), only Romany is represented (one community radio broadcaster).
Both web radio broadcasters send in Spanish, and among the Swedish Broadcasting
Corporation’s broadcasts we find (though in highly variable volumes) all of the
national minority languages except for Yiddish as well as 9 immigrant minority
languages and Swedish.
In the area of local TV we find 22 programmes in Swedish (most of which are
bi- or multilingual), 7 programmes in Spanish and 7 in Tigrinya as well as 6 programmes
in Arabic and 6 in Persian. In addition, 9 languages are represented by
one or two programmes each. We see here that large and medium-size groups such
as Finnish-, Polish- and German-speaking are represented by only one or no
programme. In contrast, small groups such as Eritreans and Tigrinya-speaking
Ethiopians have a relatively large number of programmes at their disposal.
Among the news pages, Swedish is represented by 11 pages of which most
are bi- or multilingual. Persian and Spanish is represented by 4 pages each, English
by 3 and Polish by 2. Further, there are 8 languages represented by one page
each. On the news pages, large groups such as Finns are represented by only one
title, while other large groups such as Bosnians and Yugoslavs are not represented
at all.
If we consider the four media landscapes together, we can establish that some
languages are strongly represented across all of them. Such languages are Persian
and Spanish. Moreover, Persian is completely predominant in the community
radio sphere (65 groups). Arabic is strong in the printed media, community radio
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