|
Virsiä Meänkielelä
Hymns in Meänkieli – Psalmer på meänkieli is the hymnbook of the Church of Sweden in Meänkieli, which is one of the official minority languages spoken in Sweden. The Church of Sweden offers services in Meänkieli, and to support this, some of the church's service books have been translated into Meänkieli. Description In 2010, a project began with the goal of translating hymns from the Church of Sweden's hymnbook into Meänkieli. Initially, the Diocese of Luleå led the work, but from 2012 onwards, it became a national project of the Church of Sweden. The hymns were translated by a working group that included Inga Britt Uusitalo, Gun Olofsson, Bertil Isaksson, Bengt Kostenius, Linnéa Nylund, Bengt Pohjanen, and Ritvaelsa Seppälä. The collection includes 124 hymns from the Church of Sweden's hymnbook (''Den svenska psalmboken med tillägg'', 2002) as well as four other songs, including "Saunavirsi" (Sauna psalm) and "Tornionlaakson laulu" (Song of the Tornedalians). The hy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Sweden
The Church of Sweden () is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.5 million members at year end 2023, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sweden, the largest List of Lutheran denominations, Lutheran denomination in Europe and the third-largest in the world, after the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. A member of the Porvoo Communion, the church professes Lutheranism. It is composed of thirteen dioceses, divided into parishes. It is an open national church which, working with a democracy, democratic organisation together with the ministry of the church, covers the whole nation. The Primate (bishop), Primate of the Church of Sweden, as well as the Metropolitan bishop, Metropolitan of all Sweden, is the Archbishop of Uppsala. It is liturgy, liturgically and theologically "High Church Lutheranism, high church", having retained priests, vestments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meänkieli
(literally 'our language'), or Tornedalian is a Finnic language or a group of distinct Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost part of Sweden, particularly along the Torne River Valley. It is officially recognized in Sweden as one of the country's five minority languages and is treated as a separate language from Finnish. According to the National Association of Swedish Tornedalians, 70,000 individuals understand Meänkieli, at least to some level. Meänkieli is particularly similar to the Kven language and the Peräpohjola dialects of Finnish spoken in Finland, and it is strongly mutually intelligible with them. Its status as an independent language is sometimes disputed due to this high degree of mutual intelligibility. However, Meänkieli contains strong influences from Swedish and has preserved some archaic features that even the Northern Finnish dialects have lost. It also differs from Standard Finnish because it does not include the language changes and new words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Luleå
The Diocese of Luleå () is a Swedish diocese of the Church of Sweden with its Episcopal see in the city of Luleå Luleå ( , , locally ; ; ) is a Cities in Sweden, city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the County Administrative Boards of Sweden, capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban .... List of Bishops * Olof Bergqvist, 1904–1937 * Bengt Jonzon, 1937–1956 * Ivar Hylander, 1956–1966 * Stig Hellsten, 1966–1980 * Olaus Brännström, 1980–1986 * Gunnar Weman, 1986–1993 * Rune Backlund, 1993–2002 * Hans Stiglund, 2002–2018 * Åsa Nyström, 2018–present References Lulea Luleå 1904 establishments in Sweden Christian organizations established in 1904 20th-century establishments in Norrbotten County {{Lutheran-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torne Valley Dialects
Torne Valley dialects (, , Swedish: ) are a Finnic variant spoken in Sweden and Finland. The form of the Torne Valley dialects in Finland are included as a part of the Peräpohjola dialect group, while the form in Sweden is included as the biggest one of the three variants of Meänkieli (also including Lannankieli and the Gällivare dialects), which in Sweden has an independent status from Finnish. Although the independent status of Meänkieli as a distinct Finnic language is sometimes disputed due to its high mutual intelligibility with Finnish. History The Torneo Valley dialects were once fully uniform and old standard Finnish was used by all speakers of the Torne Valley dialects. However, in 1809 when Russia annexed Finland, the dialects on the Swedish side of the border were separated from the ones spoken in Finland. This caused the Torne Valley dialects in Sweden to have been more strongly influenced by Swedish than the Torne Valley dialects in Finland. In Sweden Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
