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Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. Suomi may also refer to: *Finnish language Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finla ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. The majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. The official languages are Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish; 84.1 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with List of lakes of Finland, more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period, last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Finland
The culture of Finland combines indigenous heritage, as represented for example by the country's Languages of Finland, national languages Finnish language, Finnish (a Uralic languages, Uralic language) and Swedish language, Swedish (a Germanic languages, Germanic language), and the Finnish sauna, sauna, with common Nordic countries, Nordic and Culture of Europe, European cultural aspects. Because of its history and geographic location, Finland has been influenced by the adjacent areas, various Baltic Finns, Finnic and Balts, Baltic peoples as well as the former dominant powers of Sweden and Russia. Finnish culture is built upon the relatively ascetic environmental realities, traditional livelihoods, and heritage of egalitarianism (e.g. Everyman's right, universal suffrage) and the traditionally widespread ideal of self-sufficiency (e.g. predominantly rural lifestyles and modern summer cottages). There are cultural differences among the various regions of Finland, especially min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finns
Finns or Finnish people (, ) are a Baltic Finns, Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland. Finns are traditionally divided into smaller regional groups that span several countries adjacent to Finland, both those who are native to these countries as well as those who have resettled. Some of these may be classified as separate ethnic groups, rather than subgroups of Finns. These include the Kvens and Forest Finns in Norway, the Tornedalians in Sweden, and the Ingrian Finns in Russia. Finnish language, Finnish, the language spoken by Finns, is closely related to other Balto-Finnic languages such as Estonian language, Estonian and Karelian language, Karelian. The Finnic languages are a subgroup of the larger Uralic languages, Uralic family of languages, which also includes Hungarian language, Hungarian. These languages are markedly different from most other languages spoken in Europe, which belong to the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family of languages. Native Finns c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Language
Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, 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, alongside Swedish language, Swedish. In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. Kven language, Kven, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norway, Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark by a minority of Finnish descent. Finnish is morphological typology, typologically agglutinative language, agglutinative and uses almost exclusively Suffix, suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, Numeral (linguistics), numerals and verbs are inflection, inflected depending on their role in the Sentence (linguistics), sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Cuisine
Finnish cuisine is notable for generally combining traditional country fare and ''haute cuisine'' with contemporary continental-style cooking. Fish (food), Fish and meat (usually pork, beef or reindeer) play a prominent role in traditional Finland, Finnish dishes in some parts of the country, while the dishes elsewhere have traditionally included various vegetables and Edible mushroom, mushrooms. Evacuation of Finnish Karelia, Evacuees from Karelia contributed to foods in other parts of Finland in the aftermath of the Continuation War. Finnish foods often use wholemeal products (rye, barley, oats) and berries (such as bilberry, bilberries, lingonberry, lingonberries, cloudberry, cloudberries, and sea buckthorn). Milk and its derivatives like buttermilk are commonly used as food, drink or in various recipes. Various turnips were common in traditional cooking, but were replaced with the potato after its introduction in the 18th century. Characteristics The way of life and cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finish (other)
Finish may refer to: * Finishing (whisky), in the distillation of Scotch * The aftertaste of an alcoholic beverage, particularly for: ** wine * Finished good, a good that is completed as to manufacturing but not yet sold or distributed to the end-user * Surface finishing, various industrial processes for modifying a workpiece's surface ** Mechanical finish, processes that modify a surface using mechanical means * Wood finishing, the process of embellishing and/or protecting the surface of wooden objects People * Eli Finish (born 1975), Israeli comedian Brands * Finish, A dishwasher detergent brand owned by Reckitt and known as ''Calgonit'' in Continental Europe, formerly known as ''Electrasol''. See also * Finishing (other) * Finish line (other) * Finnish (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland (other)
Finland is a country in Northern Europe. Finland may also refer to: Places * Southwest Finland, sometimes referred to and transliterated as Finland Proper, a region of Finland. ** Finland Proper (parliamentary electoral district), an electoral district of the Finnish Parliament. * Grand Duchy of Finland, a predecessor state of the modern country, 1809–1917 * Finland Governorate, the name of the Vyborg Governorate of the Russian Empire in 1802–1812 * Diocese of Finland, a predecessor of the Diocese of Turku. * Finland, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in the United States * Finland, South Carolina, an unincorporated community in the United States *Finland, a settlement in New Sweden at the site of modern Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania Other * "Finland" (comedy song), a 1980 song by Monty Python, first released on ''Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album'' *Finland (European Parliament constituency) Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suomi (other)
Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. Suomi may also refer to: *Finnish language Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official langu ... * Suomi (surname) * Suomi, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Suomi College, in Hancock, Michigan, now referred to as Finlandia University * Suomi Island, Western Australia, Australia * Suomi KP/-31, a Finnish submachine gun * Suomi NPP, a weather satellite * 1656 Suomi, a Mars-crossing asteroid See also * * Suomalaiset, the name of the Finnish people * Suomirokki, Finnish rock music * Suomisaundi, a style of freeform psychedelic trance music originating from Finland * Suomy, an Italian brand of motorcycle helmets {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
