Finnish
Finno-Ugric language mostly spoken in Finland
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Summary
Finnish is a modern language[1]. Finnish draws 17,243 Wikipedia views per month (modern language category, ranking #8 of 43).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Finland[3], Estonia[4], Sweden[5], Norway[6], Russia[7]
- Instance of: natural language[8]
- Subclass of: Finnic[9]
- Writing system: Latin script[10], Scandinavian Braille[11]
- Commons category: Finnish language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: fi[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Finnish language[14]
- Described at URL: https://uralic.clld.org/languages/11[15]
- Language regulatory body: Finnish Language Office[16]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 5,413,380[17]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Finnish[18]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[22]
- Topic has template: Q33125647[23]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/finnish[24]
- Native label: suomi[25]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C153919[26]
- Short name: финский[27], фінська[28], финнаг[29], фински[30]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[31]
- History of topic: history of the Finnish language[32]
- Indigenous to: Finland[33], Leningrad Oblast[34]
- Female form of label: la langue finnoise[35]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/FIN[36]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q61746752[37]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[38], genitive case[39], partitive case[40], essive case[41], translative case[42], inessive case[43], elative case[44], illative case[45], adessive case[46], ablative case[47]
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Influence
Things named for Finnish include Voima[48], an icebreaker[49] and Kontio[50], an icebreaker[51].
Why It Matters
Finnish has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] Finnish is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]
Entities named for Finnish include Voima[48], an icebreaker[49] and Kontio[50], an icebreaker[51].