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.

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.

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 language, the national language of the Finnish people

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.

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.

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.

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.

The show is also broadcast on Swedish commercial channel Sjuan, in the Netherlands by public broadcaster KRO, Belgium on VRT channel Canvas and in Finland on the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE using the name " Hiljainen todistaja ", which is a direct translation of the original title.

However, Ahtisaari then told the Finnish state broadcaster YLE that " he wished the mission would fall on someone else " which it ultimately did in the person of Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister and longtime U. N. diplomat.

Yet, the people of Estonia could often hear the melody, as Finland's state broadcaster Yleisradio, whose radio and television broadcasts were received in Northern Estonia, played an instrumental version of the Finnish national anthem, identical to this song ( except for an additional repetition of the last verse in the Finnish version ), at closedown every night.

In 2011 Talpa worked together with Finnish media conglomerate Sanoma to buy the Dutch activities of SBS Broadcasting from German broadcaster ProSiebenSat. 1 Media.

This earned him the nickname " The Finnish Horse " from Shark's broadcaster Dan Rusanowsky.

According to the Finnish public service broadcaster YLE, the militia participated in effectively cutting off through traffic.

Aki Sirkesalo ( July 25, 1962 – December 26, 2004 ) was a Finnish musician and broadcaster.

* Channel Four Finland ( Nelonen ), a Finnish broadcaster

Finlands Svenska Radio ( FSR ) is the Swedish-language radio department of Finland's national broadcaster Rundradion ( generally known as YLE, from its Finnish name Yleisradio ).

In 2011 Talpa worked together with Finnish media conglomerate Sanoma to buy the Dutch activities of SBS Broadcasting from German broadcaster ProSiebenSat. 1 Media.

YLE Nyheter is the Swedish language online news service of the Finnish national broadcaster Yleisradio ( YLE ).

Yle TV1 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcaster Yle.

Yleisradio ( Finnish ) or Rundradion ( Swedish ), abbreviated to Yle ( pronounced ), is Finland's national public-broadcasting company, founded in 1926.

MHP service was also offered in Finland by Finnish Broadcating Corporation ( Yleisradio ), but the service was shut down at the end of 2007 after technical failure.

Since 1990 the first three members of the group have made weekly hour-long radio shows for the Finnish national broadcasting company Yleisradio ( Alivaltiosihteeri-Suomen virallinen ohjelma, strictly translated Alivaltiosihteeri-the official program of Finland ).

H | u | m | b | o | t is a movie-mapping, an atlas plotted to ubiquitous screens, transmitted from a database of text and video, mapped as a single screen-world, with the help of an intelligent, self-organizing mapping algorithm from the Finnish mathematician, Teuvo Kohonen.

Finnish law is codified and its court system consists of local courts, regional appellate courts, and the Supreme Court.

The non-socialist majority in the new Finnish Parliament took power on 15 November, on the model of the Power Act of the socialists in July 1917, and promptly accepted the Social Democratic proposals from July 1917 for an eight-hour working day and universal suffrage in local elections.

The term Finn is occasionally used locally for the Sámi people in Norway, whereas local Finnish speakers are called kvæn.

Furthermore, the manifesto also fails to separate which laws are to be considered local or imperial, leading the Finns to fear that any law could be considered as imperial, therefore in fact stripping the Finnish diet of all its legislative power.

Initially, the Swedish and Finnish settlers continued to enjoy local autonomy, retaining their own militia, religion, court, and lands.

* The local nickname for the Finnish city of Rovaniemi

The local team Porvoon Akilles, or just Akilles, plays in the highest bandy division and has become Finnish champions twice.

The combination of the common spoken Finnish and a dialect gives a regional variant ( aluepuhekieli ), which has some local idiosyncrasies but is essentially similar to the common spoken Finnish.

Many Cornish and Finnish immigrants arrived in the Houghton area to work in the copper mines ; both groups have had a great influence on the culture and cuisine of the local area.

Gradually, commercialism has made him look more and more like the American Santa Claus, but the Swedish jultomte, the Norwegian julenisse, the Danish julemand and the Finnish joulupukki ( in Finland he is still called the Yule Goat, although his animal features have disappeared ) still has features and traditions that are rooted in the local culture.

In 1996, Abbott attracted widespread criticism when she claimed that at her local hospital " blonde, blue-eyed Finnish girls " were unsuitable as nurses because they had " never met a black person before ".

Delake was near Devils Lake, and was named for the way the local Finnish people pronounced the name of the lake.

Many of the old local Swedish and Finnish dialects have survived in the area, and are spoken by a great number of people.

Many places in the municipality have both a Swedish and a Finnish name, in the local dialect of Finnish known as Meänkieli, one of the minority languages of Sweden.

Many place names and words and expressions in the local dialects derive from the Finnish.

Formerly there was also a division to state local districts ( Finnish kihlakunta, Swedish härad ), which were districts for police, prosecution, and bailiff services, but there was reorganization such that 24 police districts were founded.

Before that, heavy taxes and outright bans on imports that competed with local produce severely limited the availability of foreign or unseasonal food, but now Finnish supermarkets and restaurants serve up a wide variety of food from all over the world.

The Finnish Centre Youth, Finnish Centre Students and Finnish Centre Women have their own local and regional organisations, which also name their representatives to the Party Congress.

The main purpose of the new building is to support the internationalization of Oulu and give the international students a better access to Finnish culture and local people.