
Finnish is a member of the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric language group, which belongs to the Uralic family of languages. The Baltic-Finnic subgroup also includes Estonian and other minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea, with which Finnish shares similarities. The Finnish language spoken by an estimated 6 million people as a first language, the majority of whom reside in Finland. As of 2006, 92% of the country’s population spoke Finnish as their first language. [ In Finni...
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