Abstract
This paper deals with the specific variety of Swedish spoken in Finland. Its sociolinguistic structure has hitherto been considered to form a dichotomy consisting of only two varieties, dialect and standard. In the light of two investigations concerning urban colloquial language, one sociolinguistically and one structurally oriented, it is shown that the sociolinguistic structure is more complex than previously thought. Urban local dialects that are distinct from the surrounding rural dialects as well as the standard language can be identified for two out of four towns included in the project. In the other two towns the rural dialects spoken in the surroundings have gained the status of a sociolect for the lower classes, while the higher classes speak standard
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