Finnish Info - Language Profle

Lessons Finnish Lessons

Linguistic Finnish Vocabulary

Culture Finnish Phrases

Structure Finnish Grammar

Official Name Finnish | Suomi

Pronunced:

Writing System Finnish alphabet

Contains 29 letters

Language Speakers 6 million

90% native speakers

Difficulty Level Medium

Moderate effort required

Finnish is the most common language of Finland
A minority speaks Finnish in Sweden
The Kven language, a dialect of Finnish, is spoken in Northern Norway.
The number of speakers in Finnish is almost 6 million
Finnish athletes have won more Summer Olympic medals per capita than any other nation. As of 2012, Finland had won in total 302 Summer Olympic medals (incluidng 101 gold medals) for a population of only 5.4 million. That is an average of 55.9 medals (18.7 gold medals) per million people.
Finland has been at the top of the worldwide Press Freedom Ranking list every year since the publication of the first index by Reporters Without Borders in 2002.
According to the 2007 UNICEF report on child well-being in rich countries, Finland has the highest level of academic achievements of all surveyed countries for reading, mathematics and sciences. However, it also has the lowest percentage of children 'liking school a lot' (only 8%).
According to the World Audit study, Finland is the least corrupt and most democratic country in the world as of 2012.