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Topic: Finnic languages


  
  Finnish language
It is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is an agglutinative language which modifies the forms of both noun and adjective depending on their roles in the sentence.
It is believed that the Baltic Finnic languages evolved from a proto-Finnic language, from which Sami was separated around 1500–1000 BC.
Finnish is an agglutinative language and an inflected language which modifies both noun and verb forms depending on their role in the sentence.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fi/finnish_language.html   (2672 words)

  
 Uralic (from language) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Finnish, Estonian, and Lapp are the best-known Finnic languages.
Sami, or Lapp, is the language of the Sami people of Lapland and is spoken mostly in Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
The language belongs to the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family and is similar to Danish and Swedish.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-203629   (778 words)

  
 Finnish_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish, spoken by a 5% minority) and thus an official language of the European Union.
The speakers of Karelian language in Russia and of Meänkieli in Sweden are typically considered oppressed minorities.
The spoken language, on the other hand, is the main variety of Finnish to be used in popular TV and radio shows, at workplaces and it is sometimes preferred to speaking a dialect in personal communication.
language.school-explorer.com /Finnish   (5373 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Finnic Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Finnic may refer to Finnish -similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i.e.
Finnic (Fennic) may refer to Finnish-similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i.e.
Finnic may also refer to the settled peoples speaking these languages, and their farmer-hunter culture, traditionally living in Karelia, Ingria, Estonia, Finland, Northernmost Norway and Northern Sweden.
www.ipedia.com /finnic.html   (345 words)

  
 UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
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Each page also includes contains links to the LMP citations for that language and a list of websites of interest to teachers and learners of the language.
www.lmp.ucla.edu /profiles/profe02.htm   (132 words)

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