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date: 14 December 2024

Finnish and Estonian Family Names 

Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names
Author(s):
Sirkka PaikkalaSirkka Paikkala

Finland is a multilingual country. According to the Finnish constitution, Finnish and Swedish are Finland’s national languages and official state languages on an equal basis. Saami languages (North Saami, Inari Saami, and Skolt Saami) have official status as regional minority languages. Finnish and Swedish belong to entirely different language groups, Finnish—together with Estonian—to the Baltic-Finnish language group of Uralic languages, Swedish to the Scandinavian language group of Germanic languages.... ...

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