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Finnish language
Finnish language also called Suomi, member of the Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages . These languages form a subdivision of the Uralic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages ). Finnish is spoken by about 5 million people in Finland. Additional speakers totaling close to 1 million live in neighboring areas of Sweden and Russia and also in the United States. There are several dialects. In Finnish the first syllable of a word is stressed. The language has 15 cases for nouns, personal pronouns, and adjectives. It lacks grammatical gender and the article. There is a negative conjugation for the verb. Like the other Uralic and Altaic languages, Finnish has vowel harmony and agglutination. Postpositions are employed instead of prepositions. Suffixation is used to form derived nouns and verbs. The Finnish vocabulary has been enriched by words borrowed from the Germanic, Slavic, and Baltic languages. A modified Roman alphabet is used for writing Finnish, which has been recorded since the 16th cent.
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"Finnish language." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Finnish language." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-FinnishLan.html "Finnish language." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-FinnishLan.html |
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Finnish One of the two official languages of Finland and a member of the Finno-Ugric group of languages. It is spoken by over 4.5 million people in Finland, and by nearly a million people in Sweden, Russia and the USA. Swedish is the other official language of Finland, spoken by c.300,000 inhabitants.
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"Finnish." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Finnish." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-Finnish.html "Finnish." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-Finnish.html |
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"Finnish." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Finnish." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-finnish.html "Finnish." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-finnish.html |
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Finnish
•banish, clannish, mannish, Spanish, tannish, vanish
•garnish, tarnish, varnish
•replenish, Rhenish
•Danish
•cleanish, greenish
•diminish, finish, Finnish, thinnish
•swinish
•admonish, astonish, donnish
•Cornish
•brownish, clownish, townish
•buffoonish, cartoonish, soonish
•Hunnish, nunnish, punish
•maidenish • hoydenish • paganish
•womanish • vixenish • kittenish
•heathenish
•burnish, furnish
•longish, strongish
•youngish
•Lappish, snappish
•dampish, scampish, trampish, vampish
•sharpish • apish
•cheapish, sheepish, steepish
•blimpish, impish, wimpish
•foppish • waspish • uppish
•frumpish, grumpish, lumpish, plumpish
•parish
•cherish, perish
•bearish, fairish, garish, squarish
•nightmarish • Irish
•moreish, whorish
•flourish, nourish
•nearish, queerish
•sourish
•boorish, Moorish
•gibberish • Micawberish • vulturish
•spiderish • vigorish • vinegarish
•tigerish • ogreish • Quakerish
•lickerish, liquorice (US licorice)
•ochreish (US ocherish)
•vapourish (US vaporish) • viperish
•spinsterish • Pooterish • amateurish
•feverish • liverish • impoverish
•minxish • niceish • coarsish • closish
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"Finnish." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Finnish." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Finnish.html "Finnish." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Finnish.html |
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