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Knowledge of foreign languages and Swedish as second language in Finland, in percent of the adult population, 2005 Knowledge of the English language in Finland, 2005. According to the Eurobarometer, [16] 63% of the respondents indicated that they know English well enough to have a conversation. Of these 23% (percent, not percentage points ...
English language in Finland (2 C, 7 P) F. Finland Swedish (5 C, 17 P) ... Pages in category "Languages of Finland" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of ...
Pages in category "Finnish language" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... List of English words of Finnish origin; Finnish exonyms;
Standard Finnish is prescribed by the Language Office of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland and is the language used in official communication. The Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish ( Nykysuomen sanakirja 1951–61), with 201,000 entries, was a prescriptive dictionary that defined official language.
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2 ] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3 , defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...
Palatalization is a part of the Estonian literary language and is an essential feature in Võro, as well as Veps, Karelian, and other eastern Finnic languages. It is also found in East Finnish dialects, and is only missing from West Finnish dialects and Standard Finnish. [14] A special characteristic of the languages is the large number of ...
Colloquial or spoken Finnish (suomen puhekieli) is the unstandardized spoken variety of the Finnish language, in contrast with the standardized form of the language (yleiskieli). It is used primarily in personal communication and varies somewhat between the different dialects .
This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language , regional language , or minority language .