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Language code: fi

Technical information about ISO 639 language code fi

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The table below provides technical details for the Finnish language, designated by the fi code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

fi

Name

Official

Finnish

Native

Suomi

Family
Finno-Ugric
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

Language varieties
SouthwesternTavastian (Häme)South OstrobothnianCentral–Northern OstrobothnianFar-Northern (Peräpohjola)SavonianKarelian (South-Eastern)
Related languages
EstonianKarelianIngrianVoticLivonian
Key facts
Member of the Finnic branch of the Uralic language familyExhibits vowel harmony that governs suffix vowelsAgglutinative structure with about fifteen grammatical casesWritten with the Latin alphabet plus the special letters Ä, Ö and ÅPrimary word stress consistently falls on the first syllable
Sample phrase

Hei, mitä kuuluu?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Finnish belongs to the Uralic language family, more specifically to the Finno-Ugric subgroup. It is an official language of Finland and is recognized as a minority language in Sweden. It is also used in Karelia (Russia), and northern parts of Norway. It is written using the Latin script (Finnish alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 5.5 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Finland

5.4M

Sweden

520K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Finnish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

fi-FI – Finnish (Finland)

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