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 |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Finnish Native Suomi |
| Family | Finno-Ugric |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| 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 | |
| Supported in Localizely |
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
*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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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
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- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ