female and younger male. The dialect groups are those traditionally used by dialectologists. Överkalix, Norrbotten; younger female Burträsk, Västerbotten; older female Aspås, Jämtland; younger female Färila, Hälsingland; older male Älvdalen, Dalarna; older female; traditionally considered a dialect, but now often recognized as Elfdalian, a separate language Gräsö, Uppland; older male Sorunda, Södermanland; younger male Köla, Värmland younger female Viby, Närke; older male Sproge, Gotland; younger female Närpes, Ostrobothnia; younger female Dragsfjärd, Southwest Finland; older male Borgå, Eastern Uusimaa; younger male Orust, Bohuslän; older male Floby, Västergötland; older female Rimforsa, Östergötland; older female Årstad-Heberg, Halland; younger male Stenberga, Småland; younger female Jämshög, Blekinge; older female Bara, Skåne; older male Standard Swedish Standard Swedish is the language used by virtually all Swedes and most Swedish-speaking Finns. It is called rikssvenska or standardsvenska ("Standard Swedish") in Sweden. In Finland, högsvenska ("High Swedish") is used for the Finnish variant of standard Swedish and rikssvenska refers to Swedish as spoken in Sweden in general. In a poll conducted in 2005 by the Swedish Retail Institute (Handelns Utredningsinstitut), the attitudes of Swedes to the use of certain dialects by salesmen revealed that 54% believed that rikssvenska was the variety they would prefer to hear when speaking with salesmen over the phone, even though dialects such as gotländska or skånska were provided as alternatives in the poll. Finland Swedish Finland was a part of Sweden from the 13th century until the loss of the Finnish territories to Russia in 1809. Swedish was the sole administrative language until 1902 as well as the dominant language of culture and education until Finnish independence in 1917. The percentage of Swedish speakers in Finland has steadily decreased since then. The Swedish-speaking population is mainly concentrated in the coastal areas of Ostrobothnia, Southwest Finland and Nyland where the percentage of Finland Swedes partly is high, with Swedish being spoken by more than 90% of the population in several municipalities, and on Åland, where Swedish is spoken by a vast majority of the population and is the only official language. Swedish is an official language also in the rest of Finland, though, with the same official status as Finnish. The country's public broadcaster, Yle, provides two Swedish-language radio stations, Yle Vega and Yle X3M, as well a TV channel, Yle Fem. Immigrant variants Rinkeby Swedish (after Rinkeby, a suburb of northern Stockholm with a large immigrant population) is a common name among linguists