Blank Finnish dog tag

Medium to small sized breeds similar in appearance from various places in the world include the Wolfsspitz ( Keeshond ), Großspitz, Mittelspitz, Kleinspitz, Zwergspitz ( Pomeranian ), Samoyed ( dog ), Norwegian Elkhound, Volpino Italiano ( Italian Spitz ), Laika ( Russian Spitz ), Finnish Spitz, Indian Spitz, Japanese Spitz and the American Eskimo Dog.

The Karelian Bear Dog ( KBD ) is a Finnish or Karelian breed of dog.

A pulk ( from Finnish pulkka ) is a Scandinavian short, low-slung small toboggan used in sport or for transport, pulled by a dog or a skier.

Adjectives derived from " United States " ( such as United Statesian ) are awkward in English, but similar constructions exist in Spanish ( estadounidense ), Portuguese ( estado-unidense, estadunidense ), Finnish ( yhdysvaltalainen: from Yhdysvallat, United States ), as well as in French ( états-unien ), and Italian ( statunitense ).

* 1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.

Unrelated roots are differentiated in various languages such as Italian, Japanese, and Finnish, with two length levels, " single " and " geminate ".

Contrary to Estonian, š and ž are not considered distinct letters in Finnish.

Distinctively eurosceptic Finnish parties are True Finns, Independence Party, Communist Party of Finland and Workers Party of Finland.

The light green Æ and Ø show the Danish keyboard layout ; the red are Norwegian, and Ä and Ö Swedish, Finnish and Estonian with Ü and Õ as well.

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.

After World War I, both Finland and Sweden laid claim to the islands, which are culturally more Swedish than Finnish.

The official languages are Finnish and Swedish, the latter being the native language of about five per cent of the Finnish population.

The Swedish-speakers are known as Swedish-speaking Finns ( finlandssvenskar in Swedish, suomenruotsalaiset in Finnish ).

A Finnish peculiarity is the possibility of making exceptions to the constitution in ordinary laws that are enacted in the same procedure as constitutional amendments.

The larger airports are managed by the state-owned Finavia ( formerly the Finnish Civil Aviation Administration ).

Finnish and Swedish investors are the largest foreign investors in Estonia.

In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning " month of the pearl "; when snow melts on tree branches, it forms droplets, and as these freeze again, they are like pearls of ice.

The Finnish and Estonian languages are both part of the non-Indo-European Uralic languages ; they share a similar grammar as well as several individual words, though sometimes as false friends: e. g. the Finnish word for ' south ', etelä is close to the Estonian word edel, but the latter means south-west.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

" Shallow " orthographies such as those of standard Spanish and Finnish have relatively regular ( though not always one-to-one ) correspondence between graphemes and phonemes, while those of French and English have much less regular correspondence, and are known as deep orthographies.

The name " Russia ", together with the Finnish Ruotsi ( which means " Sweden ") and Estonian Rootsi ( which means " Sweden "), are found by some scholars to be related to Roslagen.

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.

Cultural influences from all points of the compass are visible in the Finnish archeological finds from the very first settlements onwards.

Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.

The Finnish ablative is also used in time expressions to indicate start times as well as with verbs expressing feelings or emotions.

Finnish: kumina – caraway, roomankumina – cumin, although sometimes also called juustokumina, cheese caraway.

Other languages also have a separate word for a full day, such as vuorokausi in Finnish, ööpäev in Estonian, dygn in Swedish, døgn in Danish, døgn in Norwegian, sólarhringur in Icelandic, etmaal in Dutch, doba in Polish, сутки ( sutki ) in Russian, суткі ( sutki ) in Belarusian, доба ́ ( doba ) in Ukrainian, денонощие in Bulgarian and יממה in Hebrew.

The Uralic languages, which include Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian, also have a significant presence in Europe.

* Estonian sina / Finnish sinä ( singular you ) and Turkish sen ( singular you ) ( see also: Ural – Altaic languages )

These developments also encouraged Finnish nationalism and cultural unity through the birth of the Fennoman movement, which bound the Finns to the domestic governmental system and led to the idea that the Finnish Grand Duchy was an increasingly autonomous part of the Russian Empire.

The bill also furthered Finnish independence by restricting Russia's influence on domestic Finnish affairs: the Provisional Government of Russia would determine only the foreign and military policies of Finland.

In the Finnish case, chaotic conditions, particularly at the beginning of the war, provided an additional reason for the use of child soldiers ; military leaders took whoever they could get their hands on, and in the Red Guards there was also the chance of a salary.

A Finnish luthiery, Koistinen Kantele, has developed also an electric kantele, which employs pick-ups similar to those on electric guitars.

However, both Soviet Russia and Finland had flotillas in Ladoga ( see also Finnish Ladoga Naval Detachment ).

During the Continuation War ( 1941 – 1944 ) not only Finnish and Soviet, but also German and Italian vessels operated there ( see also Naval Detachment K and Regia Marina ).

The Finnish President also made a speech to the National Assembly of Nicaragua on 31 May 2004.

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 ).

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

Nurmi also tested his speed in the 800 m, winning the 1923 Finnish Championships with a new national record.

Nevanlinna also published in Finnish a book on the foundations of geometry and a semipopular account of the Theory of Relativity.

* Sampo is also a Finnish given name.

Albanian, Arabic, Assyrian ( VSO and VOS are also followed, depending on the person ), Berber, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Ganda, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kashmiri, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Quiche, Rotuman, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu are examples of languages that can follow an SVO pattern.

In 1671, Swedish scholar Georg Stiernhielm commented on the similarities of Sami, Estonian and Finnish, and also on a few similar words between Finnish and Hungarian, while the German scholar Martin Vogel tried to establish a relationship between Finnish, Sami, and Hungarian.