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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 (the other being Swedish ).
- Uralic Languages
The Uralic languages (/ j ʊəˈr æ l ɪ k / yoor-AL-ik; by some...
- Finnic Languages
The Finnic or Baltic Finnic languages constitute a branch of...
- Finno-Ugric
Finno-Ugric (/ ˌ f ɪ n oʊ ˈ juː ɡ r ɪ k / or / ˌ f ɪ n oʊ ˈ...
- Finnish Grammar
The Finnish language is spoken by the majority of the...
- Finns
a The total figure is merely a sum of all the referenced...
- Kven Language
The Kven language (kvääni or kväänin kieli; kainu or kainun...
- Uralic Languages
- Related Languages
- Finnish Grammar
- Finnish Spelling and Pronunciation
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...
- c. 5 million (2011)
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 569,000 articles as of March 2024. [1] . Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated. [2]
- 2002; 21 years ago
- Miami, Florida
Languages of Finland; Official: Finnish (1st: 86%, 2nd: 13%) Swedish (1st: 5%, 2nd: 44%) Minority: officially recognized: Sami, Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Karelian: Immigrant: Estonian, Russian, Arabic, Somali, English, Kurdish, Albanian, Persian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, Spanish: Foreign: English (70%) German (30% ...
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Mar 11, 2024 · 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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Jan 22, 2022 · Finnish ( suomi in Finnish) is a language belonging to the Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family. It is not an Indo-European language. Its closest linguistic relatives are the Estonian, Karelian, and Sámi languages.