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)
Language family	Uralic Finnic Finnish
Writing system	Latin (Finnish alphabet) Finnish Braille
Signed forms	Signed Finnish
Official status
Official language in	1 Country  Finland 1 Organisation  European Union
Recognised minority language in	Karelia ( Russia)  Sweden  Norway (Finnmark)
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
Official language.   Spoken by a minority.
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Finnish ( 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.