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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 ).
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.
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Finnish is the language of the majority, 85.7% of the population in 2022. [3] . It is a Finnic language closely related to Estonian and less closely to the Sami languages . Swedish is the main language of 5.2% of the population in 2022 [3] (92.4% in the Åland autonomous province), down from 14% at the beginning of the 20th century.
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. Recognised as a minority language in Sweden, Norway and Russia.
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. Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in Finnish which is still updated.
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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 ).
Finnish language - Wikipedia. Finnish ( suomi (help·info), or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯men ˈkie̯li]) is a Finnic language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.
