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	Finnish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finnish is spoken by about 6 million people, mainly in Finland; there are small Finnish-speaking minorities in Sweden, Norway, Russia and Estonia; in addition, a few hundred thousand emigrated Finns live in Sweden, and also in North America there remain communities of Finnish-speaking emigrants, notably in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
		The Ruija dialect (Ruijan murre) is spoken in Finnmark (Finnish Ruija), in Norway.
		The South-Eastern dialects (kaakkoismurteet) are spoken in South Karelia, on the Karelian Isthmus and in Ingria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_language (5384 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Finno-Ugric Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Finno-Ugric Languages, subfamily of the Uralic languages spoken in parts of northern Scandinavia, eastern Europe, and northwestern Asia.
		Estonian Language, one of the Finno-Ugric languages and closely related to the Finnish language.
		Finnish Language, one of the Finno-Ugric languages, spoken by people in Finland.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Finno-Ugric_Languages.html (233 words)

	Finnish language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Finnish (suomi) is a Finno-Ugric language spoken by about 5 million people in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Canada and Russia.
		The first piece of Finnish literature was a translation of the New Testament by Michael Agricola which was published in 1548.
		Civil servants were obliged to use the Finnish language and issue documents in Finnish from 1883.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/finnish.htm (200 words)

	Finnish Translation - Translate Finnish Language Translator
		Into the 19th century there was a most obvious language barrier; then during the 19th century Finland developed a proud University-educated meritocracy that felt as being the true representation of "the people" since they spoke the people's language and since a great deal of their ancestors really had been poor peasants.
		The Finnish landscape is mostly flat with few hills and its highest point, the Haltitunturi at 1,328 m, is found in the extreme north of Lapland.
		There are two official languages in Finland: Finnish, spoken by 93% of the population, and Swedish, mother tongue for 6% of the population.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/finnish.shtml (1852 words)

	Spelling and Literacy in Finnish.
		Consonantal gradation in Finnish and English is explained, and its implications for spelling are discussed, as are the different reactions of Finnish and English speakers to the resulting alteration of words.
		The 'book language' appeared in its modern form in a short period, within fifty years at the end of the 1800s, at which time the language was taken into use alongside Swedish as a true language of culture.
		Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugrian group of languages, and has little in common with the Indo-European languages (which comprise the great majority of European languages), the appearance of which is more familiar to us.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j25/finnish.php (4586 words)

	The Finnish language — Virtual Finland
		People often mistakenly assume that languages spoken in neighbouring countries are closely related.
		According to the most common theory Hungarian and Finnish are separated by a mere 6000 years of separate development.
		Nowadays it is thought that speakers of a Finno-Ugrian language have been living in the area of present-day Finland since at least 3000 BC, i.e.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/finnish2.html (397 words)

	Essentialist Explanations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		German is essentially a language developed by a group of Teutons who gathered in the forest one day to come up with a language that their enemies would have no chance of grasping.
		Jarda is essentially a relexified Zireen language with a vocabulary derived from the raccoon language Kianarthal.
		Cat is essentially a language spoken while begging for food, destroying the furniture, and puking on the carpet, all while high on catnip.
	home.ccil.org /~cowan/essential.html (8792 words)

	Concordia Language Village - Finnish
		Finnish is spoken as a first language by more than 6 million people around the world.
		Finnish is the official language of Finland and the Republic of Karelia.
		It is one of the official languages in the European Union.
	clvweb.cord.edu /prweb/finnish (332 words)

	Finnish language -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		From the mid-12th century until 1809, Finland was ruled by Sweden, and Swedish remained the language of the upper classes until the end of the 19th century, at...
		The third largest Uralic language in number of speakers, ranking after Hungarian and Finnish, it has two major dialects: Erzya, spoken in the eastern portion of Mordvinia and the surrounding territory; and Moksha, spoken in the west.
		any language in which syntactic relations within sentences are expressed by inflection (the change in the form of a word that indicates distinctions of tense, person, gender, number, mood, voice, and case) or by agglutination (word formation by means of morpheme, or word unit, clustering).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034306 (859 words)

	Overview of the Finnish Language to Help You Learn Finnish
		Finnish is spoken by approximately five million people, mostly in Finland but also in the United States and Sweden.
		The Finnish language belongs to the Finno-Ugrian group of languages, which is spoken in a region that extends from Norway into Siberia and the Carpathian Mountains.
		The Finnish language appears to be rooted in the distant past.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/finnish/overview.htm (514 words)

	Finnish Children's Books, Finnish ClipArt, Finnish Database, Finnish Desk Top Publishing, Finnish Dictionary, Finnish ...
		Besides being the national language of Finland, it is spoken by about 200,000 people in the northern Sweden, 70,000 people in the United States, 50,000 people in northwestern Russia.
		Finnish is one of the few languages of Europe not of the Indo-European family.
		Like Estonian, spoken across the Gulf of Finland, it is one of the Finno-Ugric languages, which constitute the main branch of the Uralic family.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Finnish.htm (384 words)

	Finno-Ugric Languages, subfamily of the Uralic languages spoken in parts of northern Scandinavia, eastern Europe, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Livonian, spoken in Latvia, is now nearly extinct (the Livonians were absorbed by the Latvians, and the term Livonian sometimes refers to one dialect of the non-Uralic Latvian language).
		Veps is spoken around Lake Onega in northwestern Russia, Ingrian to the west of Saint Petersburg on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and Votic to the west of Saint Petersburg near the Estonian border.
		Sometimes grouped together as the Volgaic branch, Mari (or Cheremis) and Mordvin, consisting of the Erzya and Moksha languages, are spoken in the western and middle regions of the Volga River.
	www.sfu.ca /~akocheto/finnougric.htm (431 words)

	Finnish - language.com.au - Finnish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Spoken Language Services is "the original language teacher".
		Upon finishing the course the learner should have a good grounding in everyday vocabulary, grammar, and usage, and be able to communicate with native speakers.
		Finnish / 30 is based on the famous U.S. military accelerated language-learning method developed for U.S. government personnel preparing for overseas duty.
	www.language.com.au /finnish.html (461 words)

	Amazon.com: Finnish: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars): Books: Fred Karlsson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Karlsson's understanding of Finnish structure is so perfect and his ability to explain it so skillful that he has produced a reference work that transfess that clarity of view to the student.
		This was the first book that I found and purchased on the Finnish language around a year and a half ago, and I still have not found it entirely useful because I am not ready for it yet.
		I've been a student of the Finnish language for years, and this is by far one of the most clearly informitave and easy to understand texts I've ever come across.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415207053?v=glance (1488 words)

	Finland Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Finnish education probably is the best anywhere, judged by results of comparative tests given to students in many countries.
		Finnish IT success and the education/health systems were developed hand in hand so that there would be a virtuous cycle between them: good education producing more innovators whose success makes it possible to fund the welfare state.
		Finnish society is all inclusive of all higher educated finns.
	blogs.washingtonpost.com /finlanddiary/2005/05/a_young_philoso.html (17754 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This community has maintained its Finnish culture and traditions over the years and even yet today there are a few who still speak the language of their parents.
		Because this was the language of the revival, it became almost a “holy” language in the same manner as Latin is for the Roman Catholics.
		Because of the unintentional preservation of the language among the older Finns, the younger ones who don’t claim to know Finnish indeed understand the few words that are inextricably tied to their culture.
	filebox.vt.edu /r/rhepokos/ESSAY.HTML (985 words)

	Finland - Scandinavica.com
		Finnish language is spoken by 94% of the population and shares the same origin than Estonian.
		The Swedish language is spoken by a 6% of the population and is close to the other Scandinavian languages.
		The Finnish language keeps close ressemblance with Estonian and shares remote ancestry with Hungarian.
	www.scandinavica.com /finland.htm (740 words)

	Introduction to Finnish
		Thus, Finnish is a synthetic language: it uses suffixes to express grammatical relations and also to derive new words.
		This approach was especially used in the 19th century when Finnish was consciously developed from the status of a language spoken by common people into a written, official (since 1863) and cultural language.
		You have probably now realized why Finnish words are rather long in the average: root words are long due to the conservativeness, suffixes and composition are used to derive new words, and suffixes are used for flexion.
	www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/finnish-intro.html (1646 words)

	Suomen kieli \| The Finnish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These are general resources about the Finnish language and its characteristics.
		Articles on the Finnish language and its history, learning resources, and a mailing list for beginners who wish to learn Finnish.
		"Finglish" is a mixture of Finnish and English spoken by Finnish immigrants to the USA.
	www.henkimaa.nu /finndex/suomea/finnish.html (233 words)

	Finnish language : learning it
		All in all, I couldn't say Finnish is "'useful" but if you are spending significant time in Finland, it will be worthwhile.
		The variations are confined to the spoken language.
		This is where Finnish has a rather fearsome reputation with its 14 noun cases.
	www.micheloud.com /FXM/LA/la/finnish.htm (467 words)

	Amazon.com: Teach Yourself Finnish: A Complete Course for Beginners (Book only): Books: Terttu Leney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This book presents a small amount of elementary Finnish, and it suffers the ills of small courses: not enough explanation of grammar, not enough exercises, not enough reading, not enough sound recording.
		Finnish is a complex language with exacting pronunciation, complex grammar, and an extensive network of internal sound changes that must be explained clearly and completely.
		Whitney's can be useful, but he introduces grammatical minutae far in advance of their use to the learner and gives an extensive vocabulary for each chapter even when most of it is irrelevant to what is being learned in the chapter.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0844237655?v=glance (1327 words)

	Course booklet
		To enable students to learn about the structure of a non-Indo-European language with grammatical features which are very different from those of English and other Indo-European languages.
		To develop skills in linguistic analysis by studying in some depth an unfamiliar language.
		N.B. This is not a course designed to teach you to speak Finnish.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /~maija/teaching/finnish (240 words)

	Svecoman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Svecomans, or Svekomans, was a political movement in the Grand Duchy of Finland, chiefly reactionary to the demands vigorously conveyed by the Fennomans for the substitution of Swedish in state administration, courts and schools with the Finnish language, then spoken by approximately 90 percent of the country's population.
		The notion of Svecomans belonged to the public debate of the 1870s and 1880s, evoked by the restitution of the Diet of Finland that now convened every third year.
		The Svecomans proposed the idea that Finland harboured two peoples, or nations, speaking different languages, having different cultures, and originating from separate parts of the country.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Svecoman.htm (456 words)

	Languages by Countries
		English 7% (official), Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama
		Tok Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin, the lingua franca), Hiri Motu (in Papua region), English 1–2%; 715 indigenous languages
		Thai (Siamese), English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0855611.html (977 words)

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