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The Romani language in Finland is called Finnish Kalo. It has been spoken in Finland for roughly 450 years. It has been significantly influenced by other languages in Finland, such as Finnish. Of the around 13,000 Finnish Romani, only 30% speak and understand the language well. The number of speakers diminished drastically after WW2.
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.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Finland: 13 25 38 0.53 5,818,940 153,130 5,170
Finnish Romani is spoken by some 5,000–6,000 people; there are 13,000-14,000 Romani people in Finland [233] Romani and Finnish Sign Language are also recognized in the constitution. There are two sign languages: Finnish Sign Language, spoken natively by 4,000–5,000 people, [234] and Finland-Swedish Sign Language, spoken natively by about ...
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states. The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) Vatican City (administered by the Holy See, a UN observer state), which is generally recognized as a ...
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List ... Finnish: 5,400,000 [30] 25 Norwegian: 5,200,000 [31] Slovak: 5,200,000 ...
Many countries, such as Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Finland, ... Sami is an official language (besides Finnish) in the municipalities of northern Finland.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...