Finnish Uralic Natural Languages Linguistics

A Finno-Ugric language spoken mainly in Finland but also by minorities in Sweden, Norway, Russia and North America.

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• - On-line verb conjugation service for Finnish and 50+ other languages. Includes list of 10,000 most frequent Finnish words.
  
• - Articles on the Finnish language and its history, learning resources, and a mailing list for beginners who wish to learn Finnish.
  
• - Brief, well-organized (if rather incomplete) introduction to Finnish grammar. Trilingual site (English/German/Finnish).
  
• - by Johanna Laakso. Is Finnish the most ancient language in the world? Where do Finnish words come from? A Finno-Ugric linguist answers these and other common questions.
  
• - Online aid to learning Finnish vocabulary. The site is free, but registration is necessary.
  
• - A list of how Finnish represents the sounds animals make.
  
• - Automated presentation of noun declension in Finnish. The user is asked to supply a Finnish noun (it may even be a loanword), and the program will supply all its declensional forms.
  
• - On this page you can learn Finnish words and phrases by listening. Plus a song about the Finnish language in RealAudio.
  
• - On-line corpus of spoken Ingrian Finnish. Includes transcriptions and sound samples.
  
• - Studies and provides advice on the usage of Finnish, Swedish, the Finno-Ugric languages, Finnish Sign Language, and Romany, the language of the gypsies in Finland.
  
• - Discussion list for people studying Finnish language and culture in Finland or elsewhere.
  
• - by Vellamo Vehkakoski. Helsingin Sanomat article describing language acquisition as an obstacle for foreigners seeking jobs in Finland.
  
• - A survey of "Finglish", the form of English spoken by Finnish immigrants to the USA and heavily contaminated by their native tongue (by Jenni Tuominen).
  
• - A linguistic quarterly published by Kotikielen Seura (The Mother Tongue Society). Summaries in English.
  
• - Detailed introductory grammar.
  
• - A guide to Internet resources on the study of the Finnish language.
  
• - Information on Finnish words and their phonetic structure, from the Department of Phonetics, University of Helsinki. Bilingual page (English and Finnish).
  
• - Database of Finnish or Suomi names.
  
• - Short introduction to the Finnish language, with a well-organized page devoted to the use of cases in Finnish. Links to Finnish resources on the Internet. [By Jukka Korpela]
  
• - by Eugene Holman. General information about Finnish from the FAQ of soc.culture.nordic by a linguist specializing in Finnish and other Baltic-Finnic languages.
  
• - Finnish language technology company, offers proofreading and other software for Finnish and other Nordic languages.
  
  

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