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American Finnish, Fingliska or Fingelska is a form of the Finnish language spoken in North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It has been heavily influenced by the English language . American Finnish was used actively until the 1950s and after that it has been declining, and Finnish Americans have been switching to English .
Salolampi Finnish Language Village is a Finnish language immersion camp in Bemidji, Minnesota. Founded in 1978, it is a member of the Concordia Language Villages, and celebrates Finnish and Finnish-American heritage, culture, and language. [18] [19]
Maisa Martin wrote a dissertation on the phonology and morphology of American Finnish where she discusses the borrowings and changes between Finland Finnish and American Finnish. [11] Donald Larmouth did extensive research on the Finnish used by four generations in rural Finnish communities in northern Minnesota, interviewing a total of 62 ...
Lauri Törni (1919–1965), Finnish Army Captain who led an infantry company in Finnish Winter and Continuation Wars; moved to the United States after World War II and adopted the name Larry Thorne; served with the U.S. Army Special Forces in Vietnam War; killed in Laos while on a clandestine mission
Finns or Finnish people (Finnish: suomalaiset, IPA: [ˈsuo̯mɑlɑi̯set]) are a Baltic Finnic [41] ethnic group native to Finland. [42] Finns are traditionally divided into smaller regional groups that span several countries adjacent to Finland, both those who are native to these countries as well as those who have resettled.
Official language in: the Philippines; Finnish – Suomi Official language in: Finland and the Russian autonomous republic of Karelia; recognised as a minority language in Sweden; Finnish Kalo Romani – kaalengo tšimb Spoken in: Finland and Sweden; Flemish – Vlaams Spoken in: the Belgian region of Flanders; Fon – Fon gbè, Fɔngbè
Findians or Finndians (Finnish: fintiaanit; Swedish: findianer) are American or Canadian people that descend from the mix of Finnish Americans or Finnish Canadians and Indigenous peoples of North America, mainly the Ojibwe. Most Findians today live around the Great Lakes in Canada and the United States. [1] [2] [3]
The Sami languages are a group of related languages spoken across Sápmi. They are distantly related to Finnish. The three Sami languages spoken in Finland, Northern Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami, have a combined native speaker population of only 2,035 in 2022 albeit there are more than 10,000 Sami people in Finland. [8]