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The historical provinces ( Finnish: historialliset maakunnat, singular historiallinen maakunta, Swedish: historiska landskap) are former adminstrative or cultural areas [1] of Finland, with origins from the slottslän ( linnalääni) of the Middle Ages. [2] The historical provinces ceased to be administrative entities in 1634 when they were ...
The Finnish Organization of Canada was established in October 1911 by Finnish socialists who were expelled from the Socialist Party of Canada. A key person in its founding was the Finnish-Canadian agitator and feminist Sanna Kannasto. By the end of 1911 FOC had 19 locals and more than 1,500 members. Three years later the member count was more ...
The Finnish Lapphund (or Finnish Lapponian Dog) ( Finnish: Suomenlapinkoira) is a hardy, easy going, medium-size breed of Spitz type. Traditionally it has been used for herding reindeer. Although it is one of the most popular dog breeds in its native country, Finland, it is not very numerous outside of the Nordic countries .
Finnish tango ( Finnish: suomalainen tango ), or FINtango, [1] music is an established variation of the Argentine tango but whose rhythm follows the Ballroom tango. It was one of the most popular music forms for decades in Finland. Brought to Europe in the 1910s, and to Finland itself in 1913, [1] by travelling musicians, Finns began to take up ...
The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding. Words consisting of hundreds, or even thousands of characters have been coined. Even non-agglutinative languages ...
Karachay–Cherkessia (state language; with Abaza, Cherkess, Nogai and Russian) Karelian: Karelia (authorized language; with Finnish and Veps) Kashmiri: India (with 21 other regional languages) Jammu and Kashmir; Kazakh: Republic of Altay (official language; in localities with Kazakh population) part of the People's Republic of China
Gender distinctions only in third-person pronouns. A grammatical gender system can erode as observed in languages such as Odia (formerly Oriya), English and Persian. [9] In English, a general system of noun gender has been lost, but gender distinctions are preserved in the third-person singular pronouns.
