🇫🇮 What Language Do They Speak in Finland?
The short answer
Finland has two official languages: Finnish (spoken by about 87%) and Swedish (about 5%, mainly along the coasts and on the Åland Islands). Despite the geography, Finnish is not related to Swedish at all — it belongs to the Uralic family, closer to Estonian and (distantly) Hungarian.
Worth knowing
- ●All Finnish students study both national languages at school
- ●Åland is an autonomous, Swedish-speaking island region of Finland
- ●Finnish has 15 grammatical cases and no grammatical gender — a completely different system from Scandinavian languages
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