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Suomen Poikien Ja Tyttöjen Keskus
The Finnish Boys 'and Girls' Center - PTK Association ( Finnish: ''Suomen Poikien ja Tyttöjen Keskus'') is the service organization for early youth work in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland ( fi, Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko; sv, Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland) is a national church of Finland. It is part of the Lutheran branch of Christianity. The church has a legal positio .... It is one of Finland's largest youth organizations. Through its member churches, the PTK reaches over 72,000 youth and 7,000 volunteer youth instructors in boys 'and girls' clubs, events and camps. PTK's headquarters are located in the Partaharju Center of Action in Pieksämäki. There is also the Partaharju Opisto, founded in 1960, and a camp village founded in 1945.Otavan Iso tietosanakirja, Otava 1967, osa 6, palsta 1359, art. "Poikien Keskus" The PTK is composed of 356 parishes and congregations and six organizations. The organiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. The Kven language, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norwegian county Troms og Finnmark by a minority group of Finnish descent. Finnish is typologically agglutinative and uses almost exclusively suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs are inflected depending on their role in the sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, although the extensive use of inflection allows them to be ordered differently. Word order variations are often reserved for differences in information structure. Finnish orth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
