Some Finnish
Facts:
Finnish (suomi or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% as of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven language, which is closely related to Finnish, is an official minority language in Norway.
Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between inflected and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence.
Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between inflected and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence.
Classification
Finnish is a member of the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric group of languages which in turn is a member of the Uralic family of languages. The Baltic-Finnic subgroup also includes Estonian and other minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea.
Finnish demonstrates an affiliation with the Finno-Ugric languages in several respects including:
Shared morphology:
case suffixes such as genitive -n, partitive -(t)a / -(t)ä (
Finnish is a member of the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric group of languages which in turn is a member of the Uralic family of languages. The Baltic-Finnic subgroup also includes Estonian and other minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea.
Finnish demonstrates an affiliation with the Finno-Ugric languages in several respects including:
Shared morphology:
case suffixes such as genitive -n, partitive -(t)a / -(t)ä (
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don’t despair you are not the only one. what I have learned by now is that the sentence structure is different from what I am used to and that they use allot of ä & ö
May 15, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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