Languages

Finnish

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Finnish." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/finnish.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Finnish. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/finnish

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-finnish,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Finnish},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/finnish},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Finnish is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

fin 1

Speaker Count

4,750,000 1

2023 estimate, native speakers in Finland (5.0 million worldwide).

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Uralic

Source Wikipedia: Finnish Language

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Finnish Language

Wikimedia FoundationLead section

Quote, Lead section

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, 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.

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1. Wikipedia: Finnish Language

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