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The Southwest Finnish dialects can be divided into two subgroups, Northern and Eastern groups, which in turn can be divided into even smaller groups. Heikki Ojansuu [ fi ] divided the Northern group into three: Rauma , Taivassalo and Masku groups, and the Eastern group into two: Halikko and Coastal groups.
Turku (/ ˈ t ʊər k uː / TOOR-koo; [12] [13] Finnish: ⓘ; Swedish: Åbo, Finland Swedish: ⓘ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the River Aura .
The phonemic template of a syllable in Finnish is (C)V(C)(C), in which C can be an obstruent or a liquid consonant. V can be realized as a doubled vowel or a diphthong. A final consonant of a Finnish word, though not a syllable, must be a coronal one; Standard Finnish does not allow final clusters of two consonants.
Varissuo in the city of Turku, Finland. Varissuomi (lit. ' crow Finnish '), sometimes also referred to in some sources as "huono suomi" (' bad Finnish ') or more recently as ”Varissuo slang”, is a group of distinct forms of the Finnish language which have developed recently [when?] among the youth of Varissuo, the largest suburb of Turku, Finland. [1]
Moreover, in Finnish, both ae and oe are vowel sequences, not single letters, and they have independent meanings (e.g. haen "I seek" vs. hän "he, she"). In handwritten text, the actual form of the extra marking may vary from a pair of dots to a pair of short vertical bars, to a single horizontal bar, or to a wavy line resembling a tilde.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Finnish language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters .
A Rhode Island man has admitted to using gasoline to set several fires around the exterior of a predominantly Black church earlier this year, according to a federal plea agreement.
The following is a list of cities and towns (Finnish: kaupunki, Swedish: stad) in Finland.[a] The basic administrative unit of Finland is municipality.Since 1977, there is no legal difference between towns and municipalities, [1] and a municipality can independently decide to call itself a city or town if it considers that it meets the requirements of an urban settlement. [2]