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Finnish, the primary language of Finland is the native language of over 6 million or 92% of the Finnish population. Beyond Finland the language is spoken mostly by ethnic Finns. One can find Finnish speaking groups in Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Russia, the United States, and Canada. Apart from being the official language of Finland, Finnish is also one of the minority languages of Sweden and one of the official languages of the European Union. Kven is a language closely related to Finnish, which serves as one of the official languages of Norway.

The professional Finnish translators at Tomedes have compiled an interesting and useful list of facts about the language which would appeal to Finnish translation services providers as well as translation buyers.

• Finnish is regarded as a working language by the Nordic council. This means that the citizens of Nordic countries can use Finnish in official interaction with other Nordic countries, and they would not be liable for any translation or interpretation charges.

• Finnish dialects can be classified into two groups called Eastern dialects and Western dialects. The dialects under these groups only have minor differences from each other and are mutually intelligible. The differences mainly lie in the areas of vowels, rhythms and vowels. The various dialects share similar grammar, vocabulary and phonology.

• When it comes to usage, there are primarily two popular varieties; they are the standard language and the spoken language. The standard form is used for formal occasions like newscasts and political speeches. Finnish writing also relies upon Standard Finnish, and almost all written materials use it. On the other hand the spoken form of Finnish can be found in informal personal conversation and popular radio and TV shows.

• Spoken Finnish developed from earlier forms of Finnish on its own and spread out from the primary political and cultural centers. In contrast, Standard Finnish was constructed consciously preserving grammatical conventions that cannot be found in the spoken variety. It was developed chiefly for writing and involves complicated syntactic patterns which are difficult to adhere to while speaking.

• Finnish is written using a Swedish variation of the Latin alphabet; it has eight vowels which play a significant important role.

• The language has a small core vocabulary and extensively uses agglutination to form various words. The Finnish vocabulary also consists of a large number of words that have been borrowed from the neighboring Indo-European languages.

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