Finnish language

Finnish
suomen kieli
Pronunciation	[ˈsuo̯mi]
Native to	Finland, Estonia, Ingria, Karelia, Norway, Sweden
Native speakers	c. To5 million (2011)[1]
Language family	Uralic Finnic Northern Finnic Finnish
Writing system	Latin (Finnish alphabet) Finnish Braille
Official status
Official language in	Finland  European Union recognised as minority language in:  Sweden[2]  Russian Federation: Karelia[3]
Regulated by	Language Planning Department of the Institute for the Languages of Finland
Language codes
ISO 639-1	fi
ISO 639-2	fin
ISO 639-3	fin
Official language.   Spoken by a minority.
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Finnish (Finnish: suomen kieli) is a Uralic language. It is one of the two official languages of Finland. It is also an official minority language in Sweden. Finnish is one of the four national languages of Europe that is not an Indo-European language. The other two are Estonian and Hungarian, which are also Uralic languages, and Basque.

1. ↑ Finnish at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
2. ↑ Finnish is one of the Official Minority languages of Sweden
3. ↑ "О государственной поддержке карельского, вепсского и финского языков в Республике Карелия" (in Russian). gov.karelia.ru. Archived from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2011-12-06.