Finnish language

Finnish is spoken in: Finland, Estonia, Ingria, Karelia, Norway, Sweden, Torne Valley, Northern Europe.

Total speakers: about 6 million

Blue: Official language
Dark green: Spoken by a minority


Finnish (suomi (help·info), or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% as of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. It is one of the 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, which is closely related to Finnish, is an official minority language in Norway.

Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between inflected and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence.

 

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