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The Baltic countries used to have a Swedish speaking
population early this century.
Jan Oskar Engene, 20 March 1996
This could be changed into Estonia, for neither Latvia nor
Lithuania has never had a Swedish-speaking minority.
Mikael Parkvall, 27 July 2004
![[First proposal for a flag for the Swedish speaking population
in the Baltic Countries]](../images/b/balt-se1.gif)
by Jan Oskar Engene and Antonio Martins , 13 March
2000
The flag described by Andersson [and94]
was proposed in 1992, but I am unsure whether this means there
are still native Swedish speakers to be represented by the flag.
Anyway, the flag is yellow-red-white, in proportions 16 : 25,6
(6-1-2-1-6 : 7,6-1-2-1-14). The colours come from the flags of
the Nordic countries with closest ties to the area (Denmark,
Finland and Sweden).
Jan Oskar Engene, 20 March 1996
![[Earlier proposal for a flag for the Swedish speaking population
in the Baltic Countries]](../images/b/balt-se2.gif)
by Jan Oskar Engene and Antonio Martins , 13 March
2000
An earlier proposal was yellow-blue-white..
Jan Oskar Engene, 20 March 1996
![[Earlier proposal for a flag for the Swedish speaking population
in the Baltic Countries]](../images/e/ee_se.gif)
by Mikael Parkvall, 27 July 2004
I just visited Estonia and met with some of the last remaining
Swedish-speakers there. About 90% of them fled to Sweden during
World War II, and most of those who never made it there have died
during the past 60 years. There are probably a couple of dozen
people living in Estonia today who were born in the country as
native speakers of Swedish.
Anyway, during the first half of the 20th century, they had an
organisation called "Svenska Odlingens Vänner"
(=friends of Swedish culture), which still exists, but which has
been based in Stockholm since the exodus. In a 1994 issue of
their journal "Kustbon" ('the Coast dweller'), I found
a photograph from 1924 depicting the flag of the association. I
have no idea about the proportions of the flag, but for this
sketch, I simply used those of the Estonian flag.
Since the society still exists, it could be that they still use
the flag. That could easily be checked, but I have not made an
effort to do so.
Mikael Parkvall, 27 July 2004
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