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1. www.omniglot.com › writing › finnishFinnish language, alphabet and pronunciation - Omniglot

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   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.

2. www.britannica.com › topic › Finnish-languageFinnish language | Classification, History, Phonology, & Facts

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   May 1, 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.

3. www.kotus.fi › en › on_languageLanguages of Finland - Institute for the Languages of Finland

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   Finnish. Swedish. Saami. Karelian. Finnish Romani. Sign languages in Finland. More than 150 different first languages are spoken in Finland. The official languages (national languages) of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. In addition to Finnish and Swedish, there are other languages in Finland whose users’ rights are laid down in law.

4. www.wikiwand.com › en › Finnish_languageFinnish language - Wikiwand

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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 ).

5. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › Finnish_languageFinnish language - Simple English Wikipedia, the free...

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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 .

6. finland.fi › life-society › where-does-finnish-come-fromWhere does Finnish come from? - thisisFINLAND

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   Both Swedish (one of the two official languages of Finland) and Russian belong to the Indo-European group of languages, while Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language.

7. www.encyclopedia.com › literature-and-arts › language-linguistics-and-literaryFinnish Language | Encyclopedia.com

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   May 17, 2018 · World Encyclopedia. Finnish language, also called Suomi, member of the Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages [1]. These languages form a subdivision of the Uralic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages [2]). Finnish is spoken by about 5 million people in Finland.