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Swahili is a Bantu language spoken in many parts of Africa such as Kenya and Tanzania. It is largely gender neutral in specific nouns. Words such as actor/actress (mwigaji wa hadithi) and waiter/waitress (mtumishi mezani) are gender neutral among most others in the language. The words he, him, she, her translate to a single word in Swahili, yeye.
Etymological Dictionary of the Finnish Language (or Suomen kielen etymologinen sanakirja) was started in the 1950s and completed in the 1980s. Its seven volumes have a total of 2293 pages. [1] The first two parts of the work were published in 1955 by Professor YH Toivonen and the next part in 1958 by Erkki Itkonen. Then, the project was stopped ...
Finnish Americans amerikansuomalaiset amerikafinländare; Total population; 653,222 (2019 US Census) 0.20% of the US population: ... Languages; American English ...
The letters B, C and F only occur in newly borrowed words, and thus used to not be part of the Finnish alphabaet until recent times. The letters Q, W, X, Z and Å, along with the Š and Ž, are only used in borrowed words from different languages and are almost absent in Finnish.
May 17, 2018 · Finnish One of the two official languages of Finland and a member of the Finno-Ugric group of languages. It is spoken by over 4.5 million people in Finland, and by nearly a million people in Sweden, Russia and the USA. Swedish is the other official language of Finland, spoken by c. 300,000 inhabitants. World Encyclopedia.
Kalevala Day is celebrated in Finland on 28 February, to celebrate the publication date of Elias Lönnrot's first version of the Kalevala in 1835. [82] By its other official name, the day is known as the Finnish Culture Day. [83] Several of the names in the Kalevala are celebrated as Finnish name days.
Stockholm. The Finnish Church ( Finnish: Suomalainen kirkko, Swedish: Finska kyrkan) is a church building in Gamla stan in the town of Stockholm in Sweden. It belongs to the Stockholm Finnish Parish of the Church of Sweden. The church was opened in 1725. It is located in what once was Lilla Bollhuset before it was rebuilt into a church.
