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The Finnish people take great pride in their language. Through the years they have resisted other nation's attempts to impose their language on them. Over 93% of the population speaks Finnish, a Finnish-Ugric language coming from a language family different from Scandinavian languages. It is closely related to Estonian.
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4 days ago · Mariya Manzhos is a national writer for the Deseret News based in Boston, Mass. She focuses on culture and the complexities of the human experience. In 2023, for the sixth year in a row, Finland was ranked the happiest country in the world, according to the World Happiness Report. But this may not be obvious given the way that Finnish people ...
4 days ago · Most Finnish people understand that while there are aspects of our lives we can influence or change, there are so many things we simply can't control. So there is no point in envying those who are ...
1 day ago · The local Helsinki slang (or stadin slangi) developed among Finnish children and young people from the 1890s as a mixed Finnish-Swedish language, with influences from German and Russian, and from the 1950s the slang began to become more Finnish. A landmark event was the 1952 Olympic Games, which were held in Helsinki.
2 days ago · I started listening to Finnish bands on Spotify, from symphonic metal to mainstream pop artists. While living in Switzerland, I went to 13 concerts in Finland, many while still in school.
5 days ago · You may be surprised to learn that Finnish people are often the first to question this characterization. Our national self-image is that we're quiet, introverted and somewhat melancholy types. This doesn't exactly align with being the happiest people on earth. However, research has shown that those most...
2 days ago · Tampere is the largest monolingual municipality in Finland. The majority of the population - 224,266 people or 90.1% - speak Finnish as their first language. In Tampere, 1,333 people, or 0.5% of the population, speak Swedish. This is the second largest number of Swedish speakers in monolingual Finnish-speaking municipalities after Kaarina ...