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	Finnish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 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 (5786 words)

	Spoken Finnish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article deals with features of the spoken Finnish language, specifically how it is spoken in Greater Helsinki capital region and the cities in the Central Finnish dialectal area, such as Jyväskylä, Lahti, Hyvinkää, and Hämeenlinna.
		Vaasa, Kymenlaakso) of spoken Finnish -n kanssa is abbreviated into a clitic that is effectively a comitative case, e.g.
		Abbreviations are common in Finnish spoken in the Southern coast of Finland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spoken_Finnish (2552 words)

	Finnish
		Finnish is spoken by about 5 million people in Finland, where it is the official languag.
		Finnish does not distinguish gender in nouns or in personal pronouns, so, for example han can be either "he" or "she".
		Finnish is considered to be a category II language in terms of difficulty for English speakers.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/Finnish.html (544 words)

	Meänkieli and Sweden Finnish
		Sweden Finnish is predominantly spoken in and around the capital of Stockholm, in the central Swedish Mälardalen region, in urban centres along the Baltic shore, and in and around the second largest city, Gothenburg on the West coast.
		Standard Finnish was codified during the mid-16th century with the translation of the New Testament, and re-codified and standardised during the latter half of the 19th century.
		Sweden Finnish in the remainder of the country is moving towards language shift to Swedish, in a similar manner as has been the case during the earlier seven or eight centuries.
	www1.fa.knaw.nl /mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_meankieli_in_sweden.htm (13065 words)

	Euromosaic - Swedish in Finland
		Article 14 of the Constitution of Finland states that Finnish and Swedish are the official languages of the Republic and that the State guarantees the right of all citizens to use their mother tongue (Finnish or Swedish) in any official relation with State and public administration.
		Finnish and Swedish should be used in each body depending from the government according to the language of the citizen concerned (Art.
		The official language of the municipalities or of their constituent parts shall be the language spoken by the whole population, or both languages if the speakers of one of them exceeds 8% of the population or are more than 3,000 in number.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/suec/an/e1/e1.html (4310 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Finnish language, spoken mainly in Finland but also by people of Finnish origin in Sweden and other countries, belongs to the Fenno-Ugric group of languages, which is a part of the Uralian family of languages.
		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.dc.turkuamk.fi /users/mhariria/fin/finnish.htm (1572 words)

	Spoken Language Courses - Learn Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Spoken Language Services is "the original language teacher." Featuring techniques pioneered by professional linguists during World War II, these no-nonsense courses have been used successfully by thousands of students to jump-start their foreign language training.
		Most of the courses in the Spoken Language Series were prepared originally by professional linguists under the aegis of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Linguistic Society of America.
		Each word or phrase is spoken first in English and then twice in the language of the course, with a pause after each utterance to allow the listener to repeat and imitate.
	www.language.com.au /spoken.html (421 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.
		Finnish is also spoken in Russia, Sweden, Great Britain, the USA, as well as other countries around the globe.
	clvweb.cord.edu /prweb/finnish (318 words)

	Usein kysyttyä suomalais-ugrilaisista kielistä
		The speakers of Finnish, however, were mostly subjects of Sweden (until 1809) and received most of their loanwords and cultural influences from the West.
		The proto-language was spoken at least some six thousand years ago (roughly at the same time as the Indo-European proto-language), which means that the most distant branches of the FU language family are very distantly related.
		In spoken use, Standard Finnish, as a relatively artificial formation based on many different dialects, is giving way to colloquial variants of spoken Finnish, and these are used in more and more official contexts.
	www.helsinki.fi /~jolaakso/fufaq.html (3520 words)

	Languages
		Finnish uses these cases (which are usually suffixes) instead of prepositions in English.
		I hope to learn more Finnish and possibly take a class at a university, and eventually travel to Finland.
		French is a very cool language, although my interest in it has waned since I started learning Finnish and the other less common languages.
	members.cox.net /jgelbart/languages.html (749 words)

	Finnish - language.com.au - Finnish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Intended for beginners, the Conversational Finnish course provides transcripts of the Finnish dialogues with idiomatic English translations plus notes on structural patterns and explanations of essential points of grammar.
		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)

	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, like many languages, has been greatly influenced by other cultures over a long period of time and is still in the process of evolution.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/finnish/overview.htm (514 words)

	ipedia.com: Finnish language Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Finnish is an official language of Finland, spoken by the majority of people there.
		Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family.
		The distinction made in Finnish by adding the ¨ is a lot greater than that made when adding ´ or ` to vowels in French.
	www.ipedia.com /finnish_language.html (2654 words)

	Language Buddy - Finnish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A language where the spoken is not nearly as complicated as the written.
		Finnish or Suomi, is a language that belongs to a group of Finno-Ugrian languages.
		Similarly, in spoken Finnish, 'he, she and it' are spoken as 'se'.
	www.language-buddy.com /articles/finnish.asp (471 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.
		Delicious Finnish cuisine: Cooking books with the tastiest flavors of the Finnish cuisine; potatoes, meats, fish, soups, breads and desserts.
	www.scandinavica.com /finland.htm (740 words)

	Colloquial Finnish: The Complete Language Course for Beginners
		The problem is that the written form of Finnish is not spoken in any particular part of Finland.
		Finnish is also a very beautiful languages, and the linguist J.R.R Tolkien (author of The Lord of the Rings) based his alven-speech upon Finnish, considering Finnish to be the most beautiful language in the world.
		The Finnish in this book is simply the Finnish used in Helsinki (and most major cities), I can't see how on earth this has anything to do with skinheads..
	www.lexiconer.com /bookstore/item.php?id=389 (1401 words)

	Learning Finnish (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Atkinson: Finnish Grammar (Helsinki, 1956) A course in Finnish grammar for the learner.
		Conversational Finnish in video (Helsinki/Tallinn 1992) This is the first attempt to produce an audiovisual course in Finnish.
		Particularly useful for teachers of Finnish because it quickly produces neatly formatted full paradigms which can be saved as text files for further editing.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq48.html (2483 words)

	Finnish language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Finnish language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This is one of the several stools between which Colloquial Finnish fell!
		Finnish - English - Finish Dictionary, with spelling corrections and forms of word convert
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Finnish_language (5757 words)

	Ritva Laury
		Oblique mentions of human referents in Finnish conversation: The effects of prominence in discourse and grammar.
		In Papers in Honor of Frederick H. Brengelman: On the Occasion of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Department of Linguistics, CSU Fresno.
		Henkilöviitteiset obliikviargumentit suomenkielisissä keskusteluissa [Oblique arguments with human referents in Finnish conversation.] Given at a training seminar organized under the auspices of the Käsitteistäjä ja kielioppi [Grammar and the conceptualizer] project, sponsored by the Academy of Finland, in Turku, Finland, September 14
	www.csufresno.edu /linguistics/directory/laury.htm (980 words)

	Learn Finnish - Finnish Books, Courses, and Software
		This is the basic course in Finnish, emphasizing the spoken language with pronunciation drills and a large glossary.
		Presupposing a basic knowledge of Finnish, Volume 2 teaches the student structures needed in speech and writing alike, introducing them gradually to features typical of written Finnish, enabling them to start reading Finnish newspapers and literature, and acquainting them with different aspects of the Finnish way of life.
		In addition to different structural exercises and drills, each chapter includes a vocabulary review, a listening comprehension exercise, topics for conversation as well as, from time to time, topics for short compositions, and, finally, a reader section; there is also a key to most exercises at the end of the book.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /finnish.html (2736 words)

	Amazon.com: Colloquial Finnish; The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series (Book Only)): Books: D. ABONDOLO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Finnish: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars) by Fred Karlsson
		Colloquial Finnish is a practical course in everyday written and spoken Finnish requiring no prior knowledge of the language.
		The tapes are more english than finnish and there is virtually no match between the tapes and and the book.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/041511389X?v=glance (1810 words)

	Suomen kieli \| The Finnish language
		General information about Finnish from the FAQ of soc.culture.nordic by a linguist specializing in Finnish and other Baltic-Finnic languages.
		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 Groupwise Server v. 5.2, ÝáäÏí, المنتجات ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Talk Now SUPER BUNDLE -Finnish $109.00 Windows XP Pro MultiLingual Finnish.
		This gruelling film is the first made about the tenacious Finnish soldiers who defended the borders of their tiny country for 105 days against the invasion of the overwhelming and massively armed Soviet Red Army in 1939-40.
		Daniel Abondolo: Neither Scandinavian nor Slavonic, Finnish is in many ways atypical of European languages, but it is not intrinsically difficult, and its uniqueness is part of its charm.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Arabic/Products/31291.htm (235 words)

	Finnish language @ BasketballLiving.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The only Finnish language television show in the nation is celebrating its 44th year on the air.
		BRAINERD, Minn. The World War II airman whose body was found on a mountainside more than six decades after his plane crashed was raised by Finnish immigrant parents in this central Minnesota community.
		Leo Mustonen, who was just 22 when he died preparing to join the war effort, was scheduled to be laid to rest today in his hometown, interred in the same cemetery where his parents are buried.
	www.basketballliving.com /allabout/Finnish_language (183 words)

	Views to Finnish Culture
		Spoken Finnish has deep roots and many varieties, but the history of written Finnish also spans about 500 years.
		Finnish may be different but it has many easy-to-learn features.
		* Finnish has been spoken in the area of Finland since it was populated
	www.jyu.fi /viesti/verkkotuotanto/kp/vf/maisa.shtml (287 words)

	Suomi-koulu Finnish classes
		This page contains links to some of the material covered in class, and copies of some of the exercises and handouts from last year.
		There are also a few links to other sites that may be of interest (dictionaries, spoken Finnish online, etc).
		Finnish national anthem Lyrics: Fin/Eng Info in English, on-line song...
	www.geocities.com /elsimiia/Finnish-class-details.html (214 words)

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