Most successful cultural/linguistic assimilations?

Swedish is one of the official languages in Finland, it is a Swedish speaking country.

Officially and practically are two different things. I'd rather say that in practice Finland is, at most, a Swedish-understanding country. Less than 5,5% of Finns are native Swedish-speakers, and they are concentrated in some parts of the coastal areas. Most of the interior, the north and the east lacks even small concentrations of Swedish-speakers. Thus, while all Finns learn some Swedish in school, practically the great majority (especially outside those coastal areas) will not use the language in their daily lives - and then will in some years de-learn most of their school lessons in Swedish. At a guess, I'd be surprised if more than 15% of the native Finnish-speakers are practically capable of anything more than greetings and short, stilted Swedish-language conversations with limited vocabulary. Most will understand Swedish words to some extent, even in the interior, but the great majority will attempt to rather use Finnish (with a native Swedish-speaker) or English (with a Swedish national) to communicate.
 
Can anyone give examples of countries that were most successful at conquering other countries with distinct cultures/languages and assimilating them? Preferably by peaceful methods.

You don't hear anyone talking in Old Prussian lately, do you?
 
The Manchu.

The OP asked "Can anyone give examples of countries that were most successful at conquering other countries with distinct cultures/languages and assimilating them?" The Manchus didn't assimilate the people they conquered (the Chinese); they were assimilated by them.
 
The Arabs assimilating the Copts was fairly peaceful, as they only really rebelled during the first century or two.
 
The Arabs assimilating the Copts was fairly peaceful, as they only really rebelled during the first century or two.
To be honest after the last rebellions there wasn't many Copts, linguistic or religious, to have a rebellion of a big enough scale to succeed.
 
The OP asked "Can anyone give examples of countries that were most successful at conquering other countries with distinct cultures/languages and assimilating them?" The Manchus didn't assimilate the people they conquered (the Chinese); they were assimilated by them.
You're right. I misread the first post. Perhaps the English are a better example? From what I understand, English people aren't noticeably different from their Celtic neighbors in terms of DNA, yet the linguistic influence of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes certainly did take.
 
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