Meänkieli

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

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Meänkieli canonical 15
Finnish 1
Tornedalian Finnish (Meänkieli) 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnic language
Uralic language
minority language
closelyRelatedTo Finnish language
country Sweden
hasAlternativeName Meän kieli
Torne Valley Finnish
Torne Valley Finnish
surface form: 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
languageFamily Finnic languages
Uralic languages
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageBy Swedish government
surface form: Government of Sweden
sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith Finnish language
spokenIn Sweden
spokenInRegion Tornedalen
northern Sweden
subclassOf Finnic language
Uralic language
traditionallySpokenBy Tornedalians
surface form: Tornedalian people
usedIn cultural life of Tornedalians
education in some schools in northern Sweden
local media in northern Sweden
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (17)

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

Finnic languages hasMember Meänkieli
Kven language closelyRelatedTo Meänkieli
Kven language lexicallySimilarTo Meänkieli
Kven closelyRelatedTo Meänkieli
Kven closelyRelatedVariety Meänkieli
this entity surface form: Tornedalian Finnish (Meänkieli)
Torne River hasNameLanguage Meänkieli
Varanger Kven closelyRelatedTo Meänkieli
Norrbotten County languageUsed Meänkieli
Tornedalians language Meänkieli
Tornedalen hasMinorityLanguage Meänkieli
Torne Valley Finnish lexicalSimilarityWith Meänkieli
this entity surface form: Finnish