Yahoo India Web Search

Search results

  1. The two main official languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. There are also several official minority languages: three variants of Sami, as well as Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language and Karelian. [2] Finnish. Municipalities of Finland: unilingually Finnish.

  2. 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, alongside Swedish.

  3. Aug 1, 2017 · Learn about the most popular languages in Finland, including Finnish, Swedish, and Russian. Find out the number of speakers, the percentage of population, and the history and relation of each language.

  4. People also ask

  5. Learn about Finnish, a Finnic language spoken mainly in Finland and Sweden, and also in Estonia, Norway and Russia. Find out about its history, writing system, status, relationship to other languages, and sample text and recordings.

  6. May 23, 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.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  7. Learn about the linguistic diversity of Finland, with two official languages (Finnish and Swedish) and several minority languages (Russian, Sami, Karelian, etc.). Find out the number of speakers, the historical and cultural background, and the role of English as a second language.

  8. Finnish (Finnish: suomen kieli) is a Uralic language. It is one of the two official languages of Finland. It is also an official minority language in Sweden. Finnish is one of the four national languages of Europe that is not an Indo-European language. The other two are Estonian and Hungarian, which are also Uralic languages, and Basque.