Meänkieli
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Meänkieli is a Finnic minority language closely related to Finnish, traditionally spoken by the Tornedalian people in northern Sweden.
Aliases (1)
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Finnic language
→
Uralic language → minority language → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Finnish language
→
|
| country |
Sweden
→
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Meän kieli
→
Torne Valley Finnish → Tornedalian Finnish → |
| hasDialects |
various Tornedalian dialects
→
|
| hasGrammaticalSimilarityTo |
Finnish language
→
|
| hasMinorityStatusIn |
Sweden
→
|
| hasPhonologicalSimilarityTo |
Finnish language
→
|
| hasSpeakerCommunity |
Tornedalians
→
|
| hasStatus |
regional minority language
→
|
| influencedBy |
Swedish language
→
|
| ISO639-3Code |
fit
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|
| languageFamily |
Finnic languages
→
Uralic languages → |
| recognizedAsMinorityLanguageBy |
Government of Sweden
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|
| sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith |
Finnish language
→
|
| spokenIn |
Sweden
→
|
| spokenInRegion |
Tornedalen
→
northern Sweden → |
| subclassOf |
Finnic language
→
Uralic language → |
| traditionallySpokenBy |
Tornedalian people
→
|
| usedIn |
cultural life of Tornedalians
→
education in some schools in northern Sweden → local media in northern Sweden → |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
→
|
Referenced by (5)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Kven
→
Kven language → |
closelyRelatedTo |
|
Kven
("Tornedalian Finnish (Meänkieli)")
→
|
closelyRelatedVariety |
|
Finnic languages
→
|
hasMember |
|
Kven language
→
|
lexicallySimilarTo |