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Finnish language

Finnish
suomen kieli
Pronunciation[ˈsuo̯mi]
Native toFinland, Estonia, Ingria, Karelia, Norway, Sweden
Native speakers
c. To5 million (2011)[1]
Latin (Finnish alphabet)
Finnish Braille
Official status
Official language in
 Finland
 European Union
recognised as minority language in:
 Sweden[2]

 Russian Federation:

Regulated byLanguage Planning Department of the Institute for the Languages of Finland
Language codes
ISO 639-1fi
ISO 639-2fin
ISO 639-3fin
  Official language.
  Spoken by a minority.
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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.

  1. Finnish at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Finnish is one of the Official Minority languages of Sweden
  3. "О государственной поддержке карельского, вепсского и финского языков в Республике Карелия" (in Russian). gov.karelia.ru. Archived from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2011-12-06.

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