{"id":18279,"date":"2016-05-27T08:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T08:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fennougria.ee\/?page_id=1017"},"modified":"2021-05-05T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T17:47:58","slug":"finns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/baltic-finnic-peoples\/finns\/","title":{"rendered":"Finns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"heading-2374e5c5\">Territories<\/h2><p>Finns have traditionally lived in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Ingria (in Leningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation).<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1120\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/soome-asukohtwikimedia.org_-1120x720.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"36010\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/soome-asukohtwikimedia.org_.png\" class=\"wp-image-36010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/soome-asukohtwikimedia.org_-1120x720.png 1120w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/soome-asukohtwikimedia.org_-600x386.png 600w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/soome-asukohtwikimedia.org_-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/soome-asukohtwikimedia.org_-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/soome-asukohtwikimedia.org_-1200x771.png 1200w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/soome-asukohtwikimedia.org_.png 1450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1120px) 100vw, 1120px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Soome-lipp.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"25250\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Soome-lipp.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-25250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Soome-lipp.jpg 648w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Soome-lipp-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Soome-lipp-267x200.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure><h2 id=\"heading-b6830773\">Population<\/h2><p>Finns are the second largest Finno-Ugric people after <a href=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/hungarians\/\">Hungarians<\/a>. Worldwide there are over 5 million Finns.<\/p><h2 id=\"heading-81dbc4c6\">Language<\/h2><p>The Finnish language belongs to the Baltic-Finnic group of <a href=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/uralic-language-family\/\">Uralic languages<\/a>. Finnish language has several dialects, such as Savo, H\u00e4me, Turu, etc. Sweden has recognised the Finnish dialect spoken in the Tornio valley (<em>me\u00e4nkieli<\/em>) as a separate language. Norway has recognised Kvens who live near the Arctic Ocean as a separate national minority, even though academics have usually considered them as Finns.&nbsp;Until the 1960s, Forest Finns living in central Norway and Finland spoke Finnish as their mother tongue. The closest language to Finnish is the <a href=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/baltic-finnic-peoples\/karelians\/north-karelians\/\">Northern Karelian<\/a> language, while Livvi Karelian and <a href=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/baltic-finnic-peoples\/izhorians\/\">Izhorian<\/a> languages are more distant.<\/p><h2 id=\"heading-de9c91b5\">Culture<\/h2><p>Finnish-language education was founded in the 16 century (the first Finnish-language book was an ABC &#8216;ABCkirja&#8217; from 1543), before that Swedish was mostly used as the language of instruction. The Finnish language acquired equal status with Swedish as Finland&#8217;s official language in 1863.<\/p><h3 id=\"heading-369db3bc\">Kindred Finno-Ugric peoples&#8217; movement in Finland<\/h3><p>Finns have interacted with eastern Finno-Ugric peoples already since the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Finnish scholars have been interested in the common Finno-Ugric and Uralic ethnic legacies and cultures. In particular, Karelian culture, through the joint &#8216;Kalevala&#8217; epic has greatly influenced the formation of Finnish ethnic identity. Since 1991 the day of kindred Finno-Ugric peoples has been observed in Finland, though it has not received an official status yet.<\/p><\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n<div class=\"container-fluid position-relative block-pages bg-white\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"container-xl\"><div class=\"row category-posts category-pages pt-20 pb-12 pb-md-10 justify-content-start\"><div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 mb-8 d-flex item-card\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/baltic-finnic-peoples\/finns\/kvens\/\" class=\"w-100 text-decoration-none item-link\">\r\n        <div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-3by2 rounded\">\r\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1198\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kveenid13-3-9631628.jpg\" class=\"embed-responsive-item wp-post-image landscape\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kveenid13-3-9631628.jpg 1198w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kveenid13-3-9631628-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kveenid13-3-9631628-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kveenid13-3-9631628-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1198px) 100vw, 1198px\" \/>        <\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"pt-3 pt-md-4 pb-2 px-2 px-md-4\">\r\n            <div class=\"item-title h4 mt-0 mb-1 mb-md-2\">\r\n                <h3 class=\"h4 my-0 text-body d-inline\">\r\n                    Kvens                <\/h3>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            <p class=\"mb-0 text-body\">They descended from Finnish peasants and fishermen who emigrated from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway<\/p>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 mb-8 d-flex item-card\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/baltic-finnic-peoples\/finns\/mealased\/\" class=\"w-100 text-decoration-none item-link\">\r\n        <div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-3by2 rounded\">\r\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tornedalen_postkort_clio-online-2018.-sys-abrahamsen..jpg\" class=\"embed-responsive-item wp-post-image landscape\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tornedalen_postkort_clio-online-2018.-sys-abrahamsen..jpg 1120w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tornedalen_postkort_clio-online-2018.-sys-abrahamsen.-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tornedalen_postkort_clio-online-2018.-sys-abrahamsen.-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tornedalen_postkort_clio-online-2018.-sys-abrahamsen.-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1120px) 100vw, 1120px\" \/>        <\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"pt-3 pt-md-4 pb-2 px-2 px-md-4\">\r\n            <div class=\"item-title h4 mt-0 mb-1 mb-md-2\">\r\n                <h3 class=\"h4 my-0 text-body d-inline\">\r\n                    Me\u00e4lased                <\/h3>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            <p class=\"mb-0 text-body\">Me\u00e4nkieli&nbsp;(literally &#8220;our language&#8221;) is a&nbsp;Finnic language&nbsp;or a group of distinct&nbsp;Finnish&nbsp;dialects spoken in the northernmost part of Sweden along&nbsp;the valley of the&nbsp;Torne River. 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