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Languages of Finland
OfficialFinnish (1st: 86%, 2nd: 13%)
Swedish (1st: 5%, 2nd: 44%)
Minorityofficially recognized: Sami, Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Karelian
ImmigrantEstonian, Russian, Arabic, Somali, English, Kurdish, Albanian, Persian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, Spanish
ForeignEnglish (70%)
German (30%)
French (10%)[1]
SignedFinnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language
Keyboard layout
QWERTY
Basic Finnish/Swedish

Finnish Multilingual
Source[1] (europa.eu)

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 and Karelian.

  1. ^ La langue française dans le monde 2014 (PDF) (in French). Nathan. 2014. pp. 13–19. ISBN 978-2-09-882654-0. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.

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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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Institute for the Languages of Finland

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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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Demographics of Finland

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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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Finland

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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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Finland Swedish

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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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Finnic languages

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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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Uralic languages

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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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Finnish Sign Language

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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 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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Languages of Sweden

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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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Swedish language

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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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History of Finland

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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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Lists of languages

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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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Northern Europe

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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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Karelian language

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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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Finns

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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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Helsinki

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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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North Germanic 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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List of municipalities of Finland

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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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Regions of Finland

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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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Finnish grammar

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Toponyms of Finland

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population), the Swedish language (about 5.5%) and Sami languages (about 0.03%). Finland’s place names range from those of unknown or unrecognizable...

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