Meän kieli

E367599

Meän kieli is a Finnic minority language closely related to Finnish, traditionally spoken by the Tornedalian people in northern Sweden and Finland.

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Label Occurrences
Meän kieli canonical 1

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnic language
Uralic language
minority language
alsoKnownAs Torne Valley Finnish
Torne Valley Finnish
surface form: Tornedalian Finnish
basicWordOrder SVO
closelyRelatedTo Finnish language
country Finland
Sweden
endangeredStatus minority language with limited number of speakers
ethnicGroup Tornedalians
hasCulturalAssociationWith Tornedalian culture
hasDialectContinuumWith Finnish language
hasLoanwordsFrom Finnish language
Swedish language
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Swedish language
hasRegulation Swedish Language Act (2009) regarding national minority languages
hasStandardizationEffortsBy Swedish language authorities and Tornedalian organizations
influencedBy Swedish language
ISO639-3Code fit
languageFamily Uralic languages
languageSubfamily Finnic languages
languageType spoken language
legalStatus national minority language of Sweden
nativeName meänkieli
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn Sweden
region Torne Valley
Northern Finland
surface form: northern Finland

northern Sweden
relatedTo Kven language
statusInSweden official minority language
subclassOf Finnic language
Uralic language
typology agglutinative language
usedBy Tornedalian community
usedInEducationIn parts of northern Sweden
usedInMediaIn Sweden
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Meänkieli hasAlternativeName Meän kieli