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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Finnish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Finnish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Learn about the Finnish alphabet derived from the Swedish alphabet, with twenty-nine letters and two additional letters in some loanwords. See how each letter is spelled and pronounced separately, with IPA transcriptions and examples.
Learn about the vowels, diphthongs, consonants and stress of Finnish, a Uralic language spoken in Finland and other countries. See phonetic transcriptions, charts and examples of standard and dialectal variations.
In English, Finnish words used with reference to the Finnish culture, but not nativized in English and not used in other contexts: sisu - the Finnish state of mind about strong character and 'grim forbearance,' has been documented in English since at least 1940. kantele - a Finnish zither; motti - a Finnish military tactic
Finnish belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family; as such, it is one of the few European languages that is not Indo-European.The Finnic branch also includes Estonian and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in Russia's Republic of Karelia.
Learn about the most recent dictionary of the modern Finnish language, edited by the Institute for the Languages of Finland. It has almost 100,000 entries and covers spelling, inflection, usage, and context of words.
This web page explains the features and varieties of spoken Finnish, the unstandardized form of the Finnish language. It does not contain any information related to the query %mä€é¥©→→, which is not a valid Finnish word or expression.
It was first published in 1901 by Eemil Nestor Setälä, a Finnish linguist; it was somewhat modified in the 1970s. [ 1 ] UPA differs from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) notation in several ways, notably in exploiting italics or boldface rather than using brackets to delimit text, in the use of small capitals for voicelessness, and ...