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Finnish and language
The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.
* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.
Like Finnish and Hungarian, Estonian is a somewhat agglutinative language, but unlike them, it has lost the vowel harmony of the hypothetical Proto-Uralic language, although in older texts the vowel harmony can still be recognized.
In Finnish, parallels are drawn between the figure and the national personification of Finland – Finnish Maiden ( Suomi-neito ) – and the country as a whole can be referrerd in the Finnish language by her name.
The official languages are Finnish and Swedish, the latter being the native language of about five per cent of the Finnish population.
Finland's main language, Finnish, is related to Estonian, and there is and has been a certain feeling of kinship.
The improvement in the status of the Finnish language was especially striking.
There has been considerable debate over the definition of " hate speech " ( vihapuhe ) in the Finnish language.
Finnish nationalism emerged, focused on Finnish cultural traditions, including music and-especially-the highly distinctive language and lyrics associated with it.
The Finnish language is thought to have started to differentiate during the Iron Age starting from the 1st centuries AD onwards.
South-Western Finland belonged to the Nordic Bronze Age, which may be associated with Indo-European languages and according to Finnish Germanist Jorma Koivulehto speakers of Proto-Germanic language in particular.
The Kalevala played an instrumental role in the development of the Finnish national identity, the intensification of Finland's language strife and the growing sense of nationality that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917.
Finnish is a language with a relatively small native alphabet and with an even smaller number of letters that usually begin a word.
* May 12 is the day of the Finnish language in Finland.
* In Finnish language first translations were made by Toivo Lyy in 1929.
" Landsmål ", which is the foundation of modern Norwegian, was the first language to follow this program, and it was joined by modern Czech, Slovak, Finnish and later by Hebrew as nationalizing languages.

Finnish and national
Some national languages like Finnish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian ( Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ) and Bulgarian have a very regular spelling system with a nearly one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes.
Discontent with Russian rule, Finnish national identity, and World War I eventually caused Finland to break away from Russia, taking advantage of the fact that Russia was withdrawing from World War I and a revolution was starting in earnest.
The Finnish Civil War (; ) was a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) in Europe.
The shift to the peaceful development of Finnish society was facilitated by the outcome of World War I, the marked post-war economic progress and recovery, and by the pre-1918 cultural and national unity of the majority of the nation.
In theory, the new Senate consisted of a broad national coalition, but in practice, with the main political groups unwilling to compromise and the most experienced politicians remaining outside it, the cabinet proved unable to solve any major local Finnish problems.
Like other European nations, Sweden tried to protect and promote its national interests during the Finnish Civil War and World War I.
It is regarded as the national epic of Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature.
Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds ( née Monni )— a six-time Finnish national karate champion — whom he first met in the autumn of 1993.
During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.
In 2008, the Finnish government revoked a 1. 95 million euro aid package meant for Nicaragua in protest of what it alleged was a lack of transparency in Nicaragua's national budget and its municipal elections.
Nurmi also tested his speed in the 800 m, winning the 1923 Finnish Championships with a new national record.
It was customary of the IAAF to accept the final decision of its national branch, and the Associated Press wrote that " there is little doubt that if the Finnish federation clears Nurmi the international body will accept its decision without question.
Nurmi's last record fell in 1996 ; his 1925 world record for the indoor 2, 000 m lasted as the Finnish national record for 71 years.
In Finland, in 1995, the Finnish Green Party was the first European Green party to be part of a national Cabinet.
Rail traffic to and from Turku is handled by the Finnish national carrier, VR.
The Finnish national broadcaster, Yleisradio, screens local news, daily from Monday to Friday, for the Southwest Finland ( including the regions of Finland Proper and Satakunta ) residents.
All Finnish national TV channels are viewable and national radio channels audible in the Turku area.
Sami Hyypiä, a football player for the Finnish national team is the main sports pride of Porvoo.

Finnish and people
To reflect how the people belonging to the upper castes saw them, the Finnish word for " obscene ", säädytön, has the literal meaning " estateless ".
The country is ethnically homogeneous, the dominant ethnicity being Finnish people.
* Finnish people, the primary ethnic group in Finland
This system originated in the Swedish regime of the 17th century, which effectively divided the Finnish people into two groups, separated economically, socially and politically.
This was a reaction to the domestic dispute, ongoing since the 1880s, between the Finnish nobility-burghers and the labor movement concerning voting rights for the common people.
The reform of 1906 was a giant leap in the political and social liberalization of the common Finnish people.
The Russian royal family had been the most autocratic and conservative rulers in Europe, and the Finnish people had experienced it by way of the four Finnish estates.
The blow of World War I hit the Finnish people and the nation, which, at the beginning of the 20th century, stood at the crossroads between the old regime of the estates and the evolution of a modern, democratic society.
Category: Finnish people of Scottish descent
Starting about that time, people migrated to the area of Finland from the Kunda and-possibly-Swiderian cultures, and they are believed to be ancestors of today's Finnish and Sami people in Finland.
However, it is unclear if these have anything to do with the present Finnish people.
* Finnish people
He hoped that such an endeavour would incite a sense of nationality and independence in the native Finnish people.
Category: American people of Finnish descent
Russian, Finnish and Estonian also have a number of Norse loanwords ; the words Rus and Russia, according to one theory, may be named after the Rus ' people, a Norse tribe ; see Rus ( name ).
Nurmi later coached Finnish runners, raised funds for Finland during the Winter War, and worked as a haberdasher, building contractor and share trader, eventually becoming one of Finland's richest people.
The term Finn is occasionally used locally for the Sámi people in Norway, whereas local Finnish speakers are called kvæn.
Finns living in Finnish Lapland generally call themselves lappilainen, whereas the similar word for the Sámi people is lappalainen.
A portion of them were known as Forest Finns, people of Finnish descent living in the forest areas of Central Sweden.
These are something of a Finnish cultural tradition ( see ruotsinlaiva ), and people often travel long distances across Finland to Turku just to take a cruise across the Gulf of Bothnia.
Category: 16th-century Finnish people

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