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Finnish ( endonym: suomi [ˈsuo̯mi] ⓘ or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish.
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The Finnish grammar and most Finnish words are very different from those in other European languages, because Finnish is not an Indo-European language. The two other national languages that are Uralic languages as Finnish are Estonian and Hungarian. Estonians and Finns usually may understand each other, but their languages are very different. Even ...
Finnish is a synthetic and an agglutinative language. This means that words in Finnish have a stem called "body", and other parts inside them which make up the meaning. Finnish is similar in this respect to the Japanese language and Turkic languages. In Finnish, there are 17 cases/word types (sanatyypit). You can think of a "case" as an ending adde...
Finnish is pronounced the way it is spelled. The pronunciation of some letters is similar to English. However: 1. 'j' is like English 'y' in 'yes' 2. 's' is like English 's' in 'sad' (never like 'z') 3. 'h' is always pronounced, even at the end of a syllablee.g. 'ahdas' ('narrow') 4. double vowelsmake the sound long 5. 'ä' is similar to 'a' in Engl...
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The Kven language, a dialect of Finnish, is spoken in Northern Norway by a minority group of Finnish descent. Finnish is a member of the Finnic language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence .
The Finnish Wikipedia (Finnish: Suomenkielinen Wikipedia) is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnish language. By article count, it is the 27th largest Wikipedia with about 571,000 articles as of April 2024. Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated.
Finglish. Finland's language strife. Finnicization. Finnicization of Helsinki. Finnish consonant gradation. Finnish exonyms for places in Norway: Finnmark. Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes. Finnish Language Board. Finnish phonology.
Languages of Finland. The two main official languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. There are also several official minority languages: three variants of Sami, as well as Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language and Karelian. [2] Finnish. Municipalities of Finland: unilingually Finnish.
