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.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2023 estimate, native speakers in Finland (5.0 million worldwide). Partially Attested
Attested From (Year)The article dates the German travel journal holding the first known written example of Finnish to circa 1450; the first Finnish book, Agricola's Abckiria, is later (1543). Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Finnish Language
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Source Wikipedia: Finnish LanguageLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Finnish (endonym: suomi [ˈsuo̯mi] or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) 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.
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1. Glottolog: Finnish (Glottolog languoid finn1318)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Finnish Language
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Finnish (endonym: suomi [ˈsuo̯mi] or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) 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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Geographic distribution
Finnish is spoken by about five million people, most of whom reside in Finland.
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Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish.
Writing system
The first known written example of Finnish itself is found in a German travel journal
Lead section
Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish.
In Family: Uralic, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Uralic; immediate branch: Finnic (Northern Finnic).
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