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Language code: fin

Technical information about ISO 639 language code fin

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The table below provides technical details for the Finnish language, designated by the fin code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

fin

Name

Official

Finnish

Native

Suomi

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
SouthwesternTavastian (Häme)South OstrobothnianCentral OstrobothnianNorth OstrobothnianFar-NorthernSavonianSoutheastern
Related languages
EstonianKarelianIngrianLivonianVepsVotic
Key facts
Member of the Uralic family’s Finnic branch, not Indo-EuropeanFeatures vowel harmony and contrastive vowel lengthAgglutinative with around 15 grammatical cases, allowing very long wordsLacks grammatical gender and definite/indefinite articlesStandard orthography shaped in the 19th century partly through Elias Lönnrot’s work compiling the Kalevala
Sample phrase

Hei, mitä kuuluu?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Finnish language, identified by the code fin, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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