Wp/nth/Finnish language

Finnish (Finnish: suomen kieli) is a Uralic language o the Finnic branch, spoken bi the majority o the population i Finland and bi ethnic Finns ootside o Finland. Finnish is ane o the twe official languages o Finland (the other bein Swedish). I Sweden, baith Finnish and Meänkieli (at hes significant mutual intelligibility wi Finnish ) is official minority languages. The Kven language, at is mutually intelligible wi Finnish like Meänkieli an aa, is spoken i the Norwegian county Troms og Finnmark biv a minority group o Finnish descent.

Finnish is typologically agglutinative and uses aamaist exclusively suffixal affixation. Noons, adjectives, pronoons, numerals and verbs is inflected dependin on their role i the sentence. Sentences is normally formed wi subject–verb–object word order, although the extensive use ov inflection alloos them te be ordered different. Word order variations is often resarved for differences iv information structur. Finnish orthography uses a Latin-script alphabet derived frae the Swedish alphabet, adn is phonetic tiv a greet extent. Vooel length and consonant length is distinguisht, and there is a range o diphthongs, although vooel harmony limits whilk diphthongs is possible.