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The Romani language in Finland is called Finnish Kalo. It has been spoken in Finland for roughly 450 years. It has been significantly influenced by other languages in Finland, such as Finnish. Of the around 13,000 Finnish Romani, only 30% speak and understand the language well. The number of speakers diminished drastically after WW2.
Helsinki Times is the first English-language daily online newspaper in Finland providing domestic and international news for the country's English-speaking readers. A weekly printed edition was issued between 2007 and 2015.
Today, Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish), and has been an official language of the European Union since 1995. However, the Finnish language did not have an official status in the country during the period of Swedish rule , which ended in 1809.
As of 1946 most of the Finnish newspapers were affiliated with political parties. [1] The number of national daily newspapers in Finland was 64 in 1950, whereas it was 56 in 1965. [2] In 1990 there were 252 newspapers in the country. [3] In 2008 the number was 197. [3] It rose to 324 titles in 2012, but there was a decrease by 10% between 2006 ...
Historically, it was a combination of Finnish and Swedish, with influences from Russian and German. Nowadays it has a strong English influence. Today, however, Finnish is the common language of communication between Finnish speakers, Swedish speakers and speakers of other languages in everyday public life between strangers. [129] [130]
Finnish sandhi is extremely frequent, appearing between many words and morphemes, in formal standard language and in everyday spoken language. In most registers, it is never written down; only dialectal transcriptions preserve it, the rest settling for a morphemic notation.
This category includes all articles about Finnish-language newspapers, published in Finland or other countries. Newspapers are also categorized by country of publication, see Category:Newspapers published in Finland for those published in Finland.
The Peräpohjola dialects (Finnish: Peräpohjalaiset murteet) are a group of Finnish dialects traditionally spoken in the regions of Lapland, Norrbotten and Finnmark. [1] However, due to primarily historical, political and sociological reasons, some traditional Peräpohja dialects have been granted the status of independent Finnic languages in ...