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      • Common Finnic language was spoken around Gulf of Finland 2000 years ago. The dialects from which the modern-day Finnish language was developed came into existence during the Iron Age.
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  2. The majority of the population of Finland (90.37% as of 2010) speak Finnish as their first language. The remainder speak Swedish (5.42%), one of the Sámi languages (for example Northern, Inari, or Skolt), or another language as their first language. Finnish is spoken as a second language in Estonia by about 167,000 people.

  3. 5 days ago · Finnish language, member of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, spoken in Finland. Finnish did not achieve official status until 1863, and it, as well as Swedish, were designated the national languages of Finland in 1919. Learn more about the history and phonology of Finnish.

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  4. Jun 5, 2019 · Some Finnish words still in use today date back 4,000 years. It’s unclear where and when the written version of the language came from, but the oldest known piece of written Finnish dates from around the mid-1200s and was found in Novgorod, which is now Russia.

  5. Feb 11, 2020 · The earliest written form of Finnish dates to 1450, which is surprisingly late in the game for a major language. And it wasn’t until a hundred years later that a coherent standard written form of the language was developed, combining elements of written Latin, Swedish, and German.

  6. A more recent estimate is that there are around 5,000 first language speakers in Finland, but the size of the language community is 30,000. [11] Karelian was recognized in a regulation by the then president Tarja Halonen in November 2009, in accordance with the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

  7. Finnish at a glance. Native name: suomi [ˈsuo̯mi]; suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯men ˈkie̯li] Language family: Uralic, Finnic. Number of speakers: c. 6.3 million. Spoken in: Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Russia and Norway. First written: c. 1450. Writing system: Latin script. Status: Official language in Finland.

  8. May 19, 2020 · Finnish spoken language has a lot of vocabulary that sets it apart from written Finnish. This article gives you an overview of the types of spoken language words you will come across in Finland. “Spoken language” is a pretty general term, which can refer to different types of Finnish.

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