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  1. The Finnic or Baltic Finnic languages [a] [4] constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples. There are around 7 million speakers, who live mainly in Finland and Estonia . Traditionally, eight Finnic languages have been recognized. [5] The major modern representatives of the family ...

    • Uralic Languages

      The Uralic languages (/ j ʊəˈr æ l ɪ k / yoor-AL-ik; by some...

    • Proto-Finnic Language

      Proto-Finnic or Proto-Baltic-Finnic is the common ancestor...

    • Ludic

      Current distribution of Karelian and Ludic. Ludic, or...

    • Ingrian

      Ingrian and Votic villages at the beginning of the 21st...

  2. Swedish is the main language of 5.2% of the population in 2022 (92.4% in the Åland autonomous province), down from 14% at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2012, 44% of Finnish citizens with another registered primary language than Swedish could hold a conversation in this language.

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  4. Traditionally, eight Finnic languages have been recognized. The major modern representatives of the family are Finnish and Estonian, the official languages of their respective nation states. The other Finnic languages in the Baltic Sea region are Ingrian and Votic, spoken in Ingria by the Gulf of Finland, and Livonian, once spoken around the ...

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