Finnish language

E2735

Finnish is a Uralic language primarily spoken in Finland, known for its complex grammar, extensive case system, and agglutinative structure.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Finnish language canonical 42
Finnish 29
Standard Finnish 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (58)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnic language
Uralic language
minority language
national language
belongsToBranch Finnic languages
surface form: Northern Finnic languages
closelyRelatedTo Estonian language
Finnic languages
surface form: Karelian language
firstCompleteBibleTranslationBy Mikael Agricola
hasApproximateNumberOfCases 15
hasColloquialVariety Colloquial Finnish
hasEarliestTextsFromCentury 16th century
hasFeature consonant gradation
long and short consonants distinguished
long and short vowels distinguished
no articles
no grammatical gender
postpositions
rich case system
vowel harmony
hasGlottocode finn1318
hasHistoricalWritingInfluenceFrom Latin
surface form: Latin language

Swedish language
hasISO639-1Code fi
hasISO639-2Code fin
hasISO639-3Code fin
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
agglutinative language
hasMajorDialectGroup Eastern Finnish dialects
Häme dialects
Northern Finnish dialects
Savo dialects
Southwestern Finnish dialects
Western Finnish dialects
hasNativeName suomen kieli
suomi
hasStandardizationPeriod 19th century
hasStandardVariety Standard Finnish
hasWritingSystem Latin script
isMediumOfInstructionIn Finnish schools
isOfficialLanguageOf European Union
Finland
isRecognizedMinorityLanguageIn Norway
Russia
Sweden
isUsedIn Finnish government
Finnish media
languageFamily Uralic languages
languageSubfamily Finnic languages
moreDistantlyRelatedTo Hungarian language
regulatedBy Institute for the Languages of Finland
spokenIn Estonia
Finland
Norway
Russia
Sweden
standardBasedOnDialect southwestern dialects of Finnish
usedAsSecondLanguageBy many residents of Finland
writingDirection left-to-right

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tanner hasLanguageOfOrigin Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish
Sindarin inspiredBy Finnish language
Quenya inspiredBy Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish
Finno-Ugric peoples includesLanguage Finnish language
Finnish people primaryLanguage Finnish language
Porvoo hasOfficialLanguage Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish
Sodankylä hasOfficialLanguage Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish
Varanger Kven closelyRelatedTo Finnish language
Nord-Troms Kven closelyRelatedTo Finnish language
Customs of Finland officialLanguage Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish
CMM languageOfOperation Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish
Olonets Karelian closelyRelatedTo Finnish language
Erkki associatedLanguage Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish
Southern Ludian sharesFeaturesWith Finnish language
Southern Ludian closelyRelatedTo Finnish language
Krakolye dialect influencedBy Finnish language
Frans hasLanguage Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish
Meän kieli closelyRelatedTo Finnish language
Meän kieli hasDialectContinuumWith Finnish language
Inari Sami language lessCloselyRelatedTo Finnish language
Pirkkala hasOfficialLanguage Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish
Common Voice dataset hasLanguage Finnish language
this entity surface form: Finnish