Editing Svecoman movement (section)

{{Short description|1870s–1880s Swedish nationalist movement in Finland}}
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The '''Svecoman''' ({{langx|sv|Svekoman}}, {{IPA|sv|sveːkʊˈmɑːn|IPA}}, {{IPA|sv-FI|sveːkuˈmɑːn|lang}}) movement was a [[Suecophile]] or pro-[[Swedish people|Swedish]] nationalist movement that arose in the [[Grand Duchy of Finland]] at the end of the 19th century chiefly as a reaction to the demands for increased use of [[Finnish language|Finnish]] vigorously presented by the [[Fennoman]] movement. The Fennoman nationalist movement had demanded that [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish]] be replaced by Finnish in public administration, [[court]]s, and [[school]]s. At the time, Finnish and Swedish were spoken by about 85 and 15 percent respectively of the duchy's population.<ref>[http://finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=160058&contentlan=2&culture=en-US''Main outlines of Finnish history'']</ref>

The ideas of the "Svecomans" were an important part of the public debate of the 1870s and 1880s that was evoked by the reinstatement of the [[Diet of Finland]], which now convened every third year.