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Same thing has happened in Sweden. There's a cohort of elderly people who arrived to the country as children during WW2, e.g., from Finland. Many were under 10 when they arrived, and now that they have gotten old, some of them have lost most of their ability to speak Swedish, and are only able to speak in their native language from early childhood.



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