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    languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. There are also several official minority languages: three variants of Sami, as well as Romani, Finnish Sign...
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    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)...
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    or other symbols. Sámi languages (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee), in English also rendered as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people...
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    (cf. Finland Swedish), the Sami languages, Romani language, and Finnish Sign Language. The institute is charged with the standardization of languages used...
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    Finland, which is the official agency for the collection of statistics in Finland. Finland has two official languages (national languages): Finnish and...
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    mainly in Finland and Estonia. Traditionally, eight Finnic languages have been recognized. The major modern representatives of the family are Finnish and Estonian...
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    Department of the Institute for the Languages of Finland. This regulation includes the officially stated aim of keeping Finland Swedish close to the Swedish...
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    Finnish and Swedish are the official languages, with Swedish being the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental...
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    Scandinavian languages. According to Statistics Finland, Swedish is the mother tongue of about 260,000 people in mainland Finland and of about 26,000...
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    are as distinct from the Ugric languages as they are from the Samoyedic languages spoken in Siberia, or even that none of the Finno-Ugric, Finno-Permic...
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    Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik; by some called Uralian languages /jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən) form a language family of 42 languages spoken...
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  • languages, the teaching of Finnish Sign Language and Signed Finnish diverged. Carl Oscar Malm, founder of Finnish Sign Language Finnish Sign Language...
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  • Finnish Kalo (Kalo Finnish Romani: kaalengo tšimb) is a language of the Romani language family (a subgroup of Indo-European) spoken by Finnish Kale. The...
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  • mid-19th century Finland. Both the Swedish and Finnish languages were commonly used in Finland at the time, associated with descendants of Swedish colonisation...
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  • the word Suomen ("of Finland") to its official Finnish name. The Swedish language is one of the two official languages of Finland. The SFP has as its...
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    status of the five national minority languagesFinnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sámi languages and Yiddish — and Swedish Sign Language. For most of its history...
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    Barfotabarn (1933), by Nils Ferlin (1898–1961): Languages of Sweden Languages of Finland Swedish as a foreign language Swenglish Swedish at Ethnologue (25th ed...
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    Finno-Ugric languages arrived in the Gulf of Finland area during the Late Bronze Age. Valter Lang has proposed that the Finnic and Saami languages arrived...
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  • page is a list of lists of languages. SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International...
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    common first languages of Finland and Estonia respectively. The Baltic languages of Lithuanian and Latvian are the most common first languages of Lithuania...
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    hypothesis of an etymological link between the Finnish and the Sami languages and other modern Uralic languages. It also supports the hypothesis of a common...
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    (literally 'our language') is a Finnic language or a group of distinct Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost part of Sweden along the valley of the Torne...
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    Finnic branch of the Uralic languages, and is closely related to Finnish. Finnish and Karelian have common ancestry in the Proto-Karelian language spoken in...
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  • Finland-Swedish Sign Language (FinSSL) is a moribund sign language in Finland. It is now used only in private settings by older adults who attended the...
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    Helsinki (redirect from Capital of Finland)
    municipality with Finnish and Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of 76% Finnish speakers, 6% Swedish speakers, and 18% speakers of other languages...
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    Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most...
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    Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland. It existed between...
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  • local majority language, with the name in the other national language provided in parentheses. Finnish is the majority language in 99 of those 114 municipalities...
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    of its people are Finland Swedes. The sole language of Åland is Swedish/Finland Swedish, unlike the rest of the country where Finnish and Swedish share...
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    04% Sami languages. Both Finnish and Swedish are official languages of Finland. Officially, a municipality is bilingual if the minority language group consists...
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