Finnish Translation & Interpretation Services
Finnish language
Providing Professional Translation, Interpretation, and Localization services in Finnish and more than 300 other languages and dialects.
Autonym(s)
Suomi, suomen kieli
Number of Speakers
Native Speakers: 5 million
Geographic Distribution
Finland, Sweden, Russia, United States
Official or Recognized Status
Official: Finland, European Union, Nordic Council
Classification
Indo-European, Uralic
Features
Highly agglutinative language, using suffixes to convey meaning instead of word order. It features 15 grammatical cases, vowel harmony, and consonant gradation. The language lacks grammatical gender and definite or indefinite articles, relying on context for meaning. While it generally follows an SVO structure, word order is flexible. Finnish has a rich vocabulary for nature and a tradition of language purism, often creating native alternatives to foreign loanwords.
Dialects
Finnish has two main dialect groups: Western and Eastern, with numerous regional variations. Western dialects, influenced by Scandinavian languages, tend to simplify word endings, while Eastern dialects, influenced by Russian and Karelian, often have softer consonants and longer vowel sounds. Some dialects, like Savonian and Karelian, exhibit distinct phonetic and grammatical features. Despite these variations, Standard Finnish, based on a mix of Western and Eastern dialects, is universally understood and used in formal settings.
Writing System
Latin script
U.S. Distribution
The Finnish language is spoken by a small but historically significant community in the United States, primarily concentrated in the Upper Midwest. The largest populations of Finnish speakers are found in Michigan (especially the Upper Peninsula), Minnesota, and Wisconsin, where Finnish immigrants settled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other smaller Finnish-speaking communities exist in Washington, Oregon, and Florida. While the number of native Finnish speakers has declined due to assimilation, some heritage speakers and Finnish language programs help preserve the language, particularly in cultural centers and universities.
At Latitude Prime, we offer Finnish translation, Finnish interpretation, and Finnish localization services in numerous specialized subject areas and multiple dialects. Whether you need to translate legal documents into Finnish, need a Finnish interpreter for a business meeting in Helsinki, or want to localize your website into Finnish to market your products or services in the countries of the Nordic Council, Latitude Prime has the customized language solution to meet all of your Finnish language needs
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