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Finnish (language)

Finnish
suomen kieli
Pronunciation IPA: [ˈsuomi]
Native to Finland, Sweden, Norway (only very small parts in Troms and Finnmark), Russia
Native speakers
5.4 million (2009–2012)
Uralic
Latin (Finnish alphabet)
Finnish Braille
Signed Finnish
Official status
Official language in
1 Country
 Finland

1 Organisation
 European Union
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated by Language Planning Department of the Institute for the Languages of Finland
Language codes
ISO 639-1 fi
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3
Glottolog finn1318
Linguasphere 41-AAA-a
Finnish language map, detailed areas.png
  Official language.
  Spoken by a minority.
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Finnish (About this sound suomi , or suomen kieli [ˈsuomen ˈkieli]) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven language, a dialect of Finnish, is spoken in Northern Norway by a minority group of Finnish descent.

Finnish is the eponymous member of the Finnic language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence.

Finnish is a member of the Finnic group of the Uralic family of languages. The Finnic group also includes Estonian and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea.


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