| Finnish | |
|---|---|
| Suomen kieli | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈsuo̯mi] |
| Native to | Finland, Estonia, Ingria, Karelia, Norway, Sweden |
| Native speakers | c. 5 million (2011) |
| Language family |
Uralic
|
| Writing system | Latin |
| Official status | |
| Official language in |
Finland recognised as minority language in: Sweden Russia |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | fi |
| ISO 639-2 | fin |
| ISO 639-3 | fin |
Finnish is the language 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 and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven language, a dialect of Finnish, is spoken in Northern Norway.
Finnish is the eponymous member of the Finnic language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence.