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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.
Finnish Wikipedia. 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. [1] Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated. [2]
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Finnish ( Finnish: suomen kieli) is a Uralic language. It is one of the two official languages of Finland. It is also an official minority language in Sweden. Finnish is one of the four national languages of Europe that is not an Indo-European language. The other two are Estonian and Hungarian, which are also Uralic languages, and Basque .
Created by. Finnish wiki community. URL. fi.wikipedia.org. The Finnish Wikipedia is the Finnish-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition began in 2002. It is the 25th largest edition. [1] As of September 2021, it had over 516 000 articles.
Official statistics from 2012 show that at least 70% of Finns can speak English. English is the native language of 0.5% of the Finnish population. Sami languages Traffic signs in Utsjoki, written in Finnish and in Northern Sámi, marking the municipal border. The Sami languages are a group of related languages spoken across Lapland. They are ...
The official currency of the country is the euro (EUR); before 2002 it was the markka, the Finnish mark (FIM). The president of Finland is Sauli Niinistö. 5.5 million people live in Finland. Finnish and Swedish both are the official languages of Finland; the most spoken languages is Finnish, mother tongue of about 90% of the population.
In Finnish, diphthongs contrast with both long vowels and short vowels. Phonologically, however, Finnish diphthongs are usually analyzed as sequences of two vowels (this in contrast to languages like English, where the diphthongs are best analyzed as independent phonemes).
