Infobox language name Finnish nativename Suomen kieli pronunciation IPA fi suo mi states Finland , Estonia ... FIN br EU br recognised as minority language in br flag Sweden ref Finnish is one of the Official ... fi iso2 fin iso3 fin map Finnishlanguage map, large areas.png mapcaption legend 010080 Official language. legend 008283 Spoken by a minority. notice IPA Finnish Audio fi suomi.ogg suomi , or suomen ... . In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Me nkieli , a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven language ... ? ref The Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, classifies Finnish as a level III language ..., 90.37 As of 2010 lc on , speak Finnish as their first language . ref name lang stats The remainder ... as a second language in Estonia. Official status Finnish is one of two official language s of Finland ... the Nordic Language Convention , citizens of the Nordic countries speaking Finnish have the opportunity ... features, and the Southwestern Finnish dialects have many Estonian language Estonian influences Citation ... Catholic Sweden in the Middle Ages . Prior to this, Finnish was an oral language. Even after ... rules on which the Finnish standard language still relies, particularly with respect to spelling. Agricola s written language was based on western dialects of Finnish, and his intention was that each ... of Finnish dialects publisher Kotus The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland languageFinnish ... ideas of Finnish as a full fledged national language gained considerable support. Concerted ... Finnish had become a language of administration, journalism, literature, and science in Finland ... language in Sweden for historical and political reasons regardless of the fact that Finnish is an official ... of Finnish emigrants to the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. kven language Kven is an official minority language in Norway . Eastern dialects Main East Finnish The Eastern dialects consist ... not historically been under Swedish or Finnish rule is usually called the Karelian language , and it is considered ... more details
Incubator code sgn FI Infobox language name Finnish Sign Language nativename Suomalainen viittomakieli states Finland speakers 5,000 date 1986 familycolor Sign fam1 ? BANZSL British Sign fam2 Swedish Sign Language family Swedish Sign iso3 fse Finnish Sign Language suomalainen viittomakieli in FinnishlanguageFinnish is the sign language most commonly used in Finland . There are 5000 estimate Finnish deaf who have Finnish Sign Language as a mother tongue. Linguistically Finnish Sign Language is closest to Swedish Sign Language , from which it began to separate as an independent language in the middle of the 19th century. Finnish legislation recognition of sign languages Finland recognized Finnish Sign Language as one of Finland s domestic languages in 1995 when it was included in the renewed Constitution of Finland constitution . Finland then became the third country in the world to recognize sign language as a natural language and the right to use it as a mother tongue. Courses in sign language have been taught in Finland since the 1960s. At that time, instruction taught signs but followed Finnish word order see Manually Coded Language . Later, as research on sign languages in general and Finnish Sign Language in particular determined that sign languages tend to have a very different grammar to spoken languages, the teaching of Finnish Sign Language and Signed Finnish have diverged. External links http suvi.viittomat.net Finnish Sign Language dictionary in Finnish http www.kl deaf.fi File 66fbe96f 9231 43f2 844d ef5b765d8b0a Draft curriculum FSL.pdf Draft Curriculum and Structure of Finnish Sign Language PDF download, in English contains useful information on the grammar of Finnish Sign Language http members.surfeu.fi deaf Finnish Manual Alphabet Also Finnish Sign Language sign language navigation Category Swedish Sign Language family Category Languages of Finland eo Finna mansigna lingvo hr Finski znakovni jezik it Lingua dei segni finlandese no Finsk tegnspr k pt ... more details
Infobox Language name Finnish Kalo nativename F ntika R mma states Finland , Sweden speakers 7,002 of which 5,410 in Finland and 1,592 in Sweden familycolor Indo European fam2 Indo Iranian languages Indo Iranian fam3 Indo Aryan languages Indo Aryan fam4 List of Central Indo Aryan languages Central Zone fam5 Romani language Romani fam6 Northern Romani dialects Northern Romani fam7 Baltic Romani nation iso3 rmf Finnish Kalo is a language of the Romani language Romani language family a subgroup of Indo European spoken by Finnish Kale . The language is not inherently intelligible with Scandoromani language Scandoromani or Angloromani . The speakers of the language originally came from Scotland . Source http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code rmf Ethnologue Category Romani language Category Languages of Finland Category Languages of Sweden ie lang stub Romani stub pms Lenga romani kalo finland isa ru ... more details
Wiktionary Finnish refers to something or someone from, or related to, Finland , such as Culture of Finland Finnish people , the primary ethnic group in Finland The Finnishlanguage , the national language of the Finnish people Finnish cuisine disambiguation de Finnisch it Finlandese pt Finland s ru sq Finlandez simple Finnish ... more details
and the respective Academy Award ceremony. All films were in FinnishlanguageFinnish except for their 2000 ...Finland has submitted twenty two films for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category to the Oscars . The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the United ... produced outside the United States that contains primarily non English language English dialogue. ref name Rules cite web title Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award publisher Academy ... rules rule14.html Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2008 01 12 ref The Finnish Academy Awards submission is selected by an expert jury chosen by the Finnish Film Foundation . ref http www.ses.fi ... last Selkokari date 2006 10 18 ref As of 2009, only one Finnish film has been nominated for the Foreign ... s withdrawals, Klaus H r has represented Finland more than any other Finnish director three times. Submissions ... countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956 ... Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2008 06 22 ref The Foreign Language Film Award Committee ... submissions were half in Swedish language Swedish also an official language of Finland , and their 1973 submission was in a Finnish dialect native to the Northern part of the country. class wikitable ... Title in the original language Director Result align center 1956 1972 br No Submissions align ... news story.php?cid 2379&sid 10&ptid 4 title Steam Of Life Is Finnish Oscar Entry accessdate ... title 9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar Race accessdate 2011 01 19 work oscars.org ref ... for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar accessdate 2011 10 14 work oscars.org ref Le Havre sortname ... Foreign Language Film List of Academy Award winning foreign language films Cinema of Finland References ... Academy Awards DEFAULTSORT List Of Finnish Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film Category Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award submissions by country Finland Category ... more details
Finnish poetry is the poetry of the Finnishlanguage . It has its roots in the early folk music of the area, and still has a thriving presence today. The most well known opus of Finnish poetry is the mythical epic Kalevala , compiled by Elias L nnrot . External links http www.sacred texts.com neu kveng kvtitle.htm A translation of the Kalevala Poetry of different cultures and languages Category Finnish literature poetry stub finland stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 East Finnish culture and dialect are chiefly vested in the Savonians and the Karelians . There is less influence from Scandinavia n and Finland Swedish culture and language. The language is distinguished by vowel diphthong shifts with respect to the standard language, and the use of palatalization. Epenthetic vowels are added after l , h and sometimes n in stressed syllable coda preceding a consonant e.g. kylm kylym , but this feature is not distinguishing, being also found commonly in most Western Finnish dialects. Migrants of the last half millennium to central and northern Scandinavia and to Ingria were mainly of East Finnish origin, which is why dialects and languages such as Me nkieli and Ingrian language Ingrian are closer to the East Finnish dialects. Subdivisions Savo Finnish . There are major differences between different Savo dialects. For example, North Savo has different personal pronouns from South Savo. Karelian Finnish Some dialects of the Karelian language spoken within the former borders Treaty of Tartu Russian Finnish 1920 peace are sometimes classified as border Karelian dialects Raja Karjalan murteet . Category Ingria Category Karelia Finland stub ... more details
Infobox Identity document document name Finnish passport image Finland passport.jpg image caption The front cover of a contemporary Finnish biometric passport image2 FINpassportbiodatapage.png image caption2 The data page of a contemporary Finnish biometric passport date first issued August 21, 2006 current Biometric passport biometric version using jurisdiction flag Finland valid jurisdictions document type Passport purpose Identification eligibility Finnish nationality law Finnish citizenship expiration 5 years after issuance File Aland pas.jpg right thumb 200px Front cover of a biometric passport issued to Finnish citizens connected to the land Islands File Finlanddippassport.jpg right thumb 200px Front cover of a biometric diplomatic passport File Finlandservicepassport.png right thumb 200px Front cover of a biometric service passport File Finnish passport 2007.jpg right thumb 200px Current type passport with no Biometric passport RFID chip only issued at Finnish embassies abroad Finnish ... serving as proof of Finnish nationality , they facilitate the process of securing assistance from Finnish consular officials abroad or other EU members in case a Finnish consular is absent, if needed. Finnish passports share the standardised layout and burgundy red design with other EU countries. Physical appearance From 1996, Finnish passports have been Burgundy color burgundy colored and use the standard European Union passport design, with the Coat of arms of Finland Finnish Coat of arms emblazoned in the center of the front cover. The words Euroopan unioni FinnishlanguageFinnish and Europeiska unionen Swedish language Swedish meaning European Union are inscribed above the coat of arms, and the words Suomi &ndash Finland , the country s name in Finnish and Swedish, and Passi &ndash Pass , meaning Passport in Finnish and Swedish, below. In older EU passports, the words were entirely ... otherwise broadly similar in appearance. See also Visa requirements for Finnish citizens Passports ... more details
Refimprove date November 2008 Neopaganism2 Finnish Neopaganism lang fi suomenusko or lang fi suomenuskoinen pakanuus ref cite web url http www.taivaannaula.org suomenusko.php title Suomenuskoinen pakanuus accessdate 2008 08 20 publisher Taivaannaula ry languageFinnish ref also formerly lang fi ukonusko is a Neopagan religion religious system that attempts to revive old Finnish paganism , the pre Christian polytheistic ethnic religion of the Finnish people . The main problem in the revival of Finnish paganism is the nature of pre Christian Finnish culture, which relied on oral tradition and was completely nonliterate. The primary sources concerning Finnish native culture are written by latter era Christians. They may be biased, tainted or unreliable. Finnish Neopaganism is advocated by the Taivaannaula ... Christian denominations. Beliefs Deities Finnish Neopaganism is polytheistic , with a pantheon of many deities worshipped Ukko the sky god, and chief deity in the Finnish pantheon. Actually most Finnish ... god Finnish Neopaganism also includes an element of ancestor worship . Afterlife For Finnish ... text in Finnish Neopaganism, such as the Christian Bible , but the folk epic of Finland, the Kalevala ..., Kalevala was heavily edited by its writer, Elias L nnroth, so most Finnish neopagans prefer SKVR. Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot or SKVR The old poems of Finnish people is a massive collection of all collected Finnish poetic folklore and mythology, with 100 000 different poems. SKVR is probably even ... of Finnish mythology a lot easier than earlier. Worship Some Finnish Neopagans visit sacred ... finnish paganism.php Finnish Paganism ref Notes Reflist External links Wikipedia books Finnic Paganism http www.lehto ry.org english.html Lehto Finnish organization for Earth based religions http www.taivaannaula.org Taivaannaula Finnish Neopagan organization http nic nac project.de anssix finnish paganism.html Finnish Paganism by Anssi Alhonen Neopaganism Category Finnish paganism Category Neopagan ... more details
The term Finnish Swedish lang sv finlandssvensk a , lang fi suomenruotsi alainen could refer to The Swedish speaking population of Finland, see Swedish speaking Finns The dialect of the Swedish language spoken by them, see Finland Swedish disambig ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Finnish Canadian br small Kanadansuomalaiset br small image caption poptime Finnish br about 114,000 Canadians br small 0.4 of the Canadian population small popplace Toronto Thunder Bay, Ontario Sudbury, Ontario langs Canadian English , FinnishlanguageFinnish , Swedish language Swedish rels Protestant mainly Lutheran , related Finns , Finnish Americans br Estonia n Canadians br Scandinavian Canadian s Finnish Canadians are Canada Canadians of Finland Finnish ancestry. According to the 2001 census number over 114,000 Canadians claim Finnish ancestry. Finns started coming ... 20th century. Finnish immigration to Canada was often a direct result of economic depression s and wars, or in the aftermath of major conflicts like the Finnish Civil War . ref name Ethnic Cite web last Adamson first Julia title SGW Finnish Saskatchewan Genealogy Roots work Saskatchewan History ... cansk Saskatchewan ethnic finnish saskatchewan.html accessdate 2010 12 07 ref ref name ... page 69 url http www.rootsweb.ancestry.com cansk Finnish NewFinlandDistrict GJohnson.html ref Canada .... ref name Cleef Citation last Cleef first Eugene Van title Finnish Settlement in Canada publisher ... 20th century, newly arrived Finnish immigrants to Canada quickly became involved in political organizations ... Alan title Finnish settlements work Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina publisher Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan year 2006 url http esask.uregina.ca entry finnish settlements.html accessdate 2010 12 07 ref Halls and co operatives were often erected in communities with sizable Finnish populations. Finnish Canadians pioneered efforts to establish co operatives in several Canadian cities ... Canadians of Finnish ancestry often formed a large percentage of left wing organizations during ... Finns. This was partially due to the number of political refugees escaping persecution after the Finnish ... Ostrobothnia region Ostrobothnia , to harsh economic conditions. Finnish Canadians with Marxist ... more details
File Mikael Agricola by Albert Edelfelt.jpg thumb Mikael Agricola Finnish literature refers to literature written in Finland . Earliest texts in Finland were written in Swedish or Latin during the Finnish Middle Age ca. 1200 1523 . Finnishlanguage literature was slowly developing from the 16th century onwards. First artistic heyday of the Finnish literature was the mid 19th century era of National Romanticism. Most of the significant works of the era, written in Swedish or increasingly in Finnish, revolved around achieving or maintaining a strong Finnish identity see Karelianism . Pre Nineteenth century Since Finnish is a relatively new written language there is almost no literature from the Middle ... language literature Even after the establishment of the FinnishlanguageFinnish as the primary ... 160076&contentlan 2&culture en US ThisisFINLAND Finnish Literature Today See also Finnishlanguage ... language Latin , Swedish language Swedish or a few other European languages such as French language French or German language German . See Finland s language strife . Written Finnish was essentially established by the Bishop and Finnish Lutheran reformer Mikael Agricola 1510 1557 who mainly based it on western dialects. His main works were a translation of the New Testament into Finnish, a task completed in 1548, and a primer in Finnish. Nineteenth century Since the Middle Ages Finnish has ... as The Ancient Poems of the Finnish People . It is a colossal collection consisting of 27,000 pages ... of folk poetry is by far the Kalevala . Referred to as the Finnish national epic it is mainly ... a symbol of Finnish nationalism . Finland was then politically controlled by Russia and had previously been part of Sweden. The Kalevala was therefore an important part of early Finnish identity ... of Finland . Essentially the first novel published in Finnish was Seven Brothers 1870 by Aleksis Kivi 1834 1872 , still generally considered to be one of the greatest of all works of Finnish literature ... more details
Expand Finnish Wikipedia Suomenkielinen Wikipedia date August 2011 Infobox website name Wiki favicon Finnish Wikipedia screenshot logo File Wikipedia logo v2 fi.png 135px caption url http fi.wikipedia.org fi.wikipedia.org commercial No location Miami, Florida type Internet encyclopedia project languageFinnishlanguageFinnish registration Optional owner Wikimedia Foundation author The Finnish Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Finnishlanguage called in Finnish Suomenkielinen Wikipedia . By article count, it is the 17th largest Wikipedia with about formatnum expr NUMBEROF ARTICLES fi round 3 encyclopedia article articles as of CURRENTMONTHNAME CURRENTYEAR ref http meta.wikimedia.org wiki List of Wikipedias ref The Finnishlanguage project was started in late 2002 , but it remained ... steadily through 2004 . Despite the small number of First language native Finnish speakers, virtually non existent number of non native Finnish speakers and the high number of the native speakers who are also fluent in English language English , the Finnish Wikipedia is currently the 17th ... of Finnishlanguage Wikipedia articles to the number of Finnish speakers is the 16th largest at expr ... ref These figures were based on Ethnologue s estimate of 5,009,390 Finnish speakers. Accolades and controversies ... in the media has mostly been with a positive slant including an editorial from the Finnish newspaper ... of the Finnish Legislature . Another dispute was when a former VJ and current newspaper columnist ... fi icon http fi.wikipedia.org Finnish Wikipedia fi icon http fi.m.wikipedia.org Finnish Wikipedia mobile version Wikipedia Wikipedia Signpost 2006 10 23 Interwiki report Report from the Finnish Wikipedia , from Wikipedia Signpost in English Wikipedia , 2006 10 23. Wikipedias Category Finnishlanguage Category Wikipedias by language Category Internet properties established in 2002 af Finse Wikipedia ... nn Finsk Wikipedia pt Wikip dia em finland s ru simple Finnish Wikipedia sr ... more details
Jack of Finland.svg 100px border identification symbol 2 label Naval Jack The Finnish Navy lang fi Merivoimat , lang sv Marinen is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces . The Navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscription conscript s are trained each year. Finnish Navy vessels are given the ship prefix FNS simply short for Finnish Navy Ship . Prefix is not used while conversing in Finnishlanguage. As a term Finnish Navy is a bit misleading since it refers to Finnish Naval fleet ... Oy location Pori, Finland languageFinnish isbn 951 95781 1 0 ref Between 1941 1945 some 69,779 ...Refimprove date October 2010 Infobox Military Unit unit name Finnish Navy br Merivoimat br Marinen image Image Suomen Merivoimien tunnus.svg 100px caption Finnish Navy emblem dates 1918&ndash present country ... battle honours Russo Swedish War 1788 1790 br Finnish Civil War br Continuation War commander1 ... the Nyland brigad, where coastal Finnish J ger troops jaeger s are trained. The Nyland brigad is also the only Finland Swedish Swedish language unit in the country and it carries the tradition and battle honours of the Nyland Regiment from the Swedish Army. Locations Finnish Naval Headquarters Naval Headquarters Pihlajaniemi Heikkil , Turku Finnish Naval Academy Naval Academy Suomenlinna , Helsinki Finnish Naval Depot Naval Depot Pansio and Kimito Finnish Naval Research Depot Naval Research ... personnel History During the Swedish era, the Finnish Gulf saw many battles between the Swedish and Russian ... came from Finland see Archipelago Fleet . Image Naval Jack of Finland.svg right thumb Finnish Naval Jack During the Russian rule 1809 1917 an entirely Finnish Navy unit, Suomen Meriekipaasi , was defending ... had included steam frigates Russian frigate Rurik 1851 Rurik and Kalevala , named after the Finnish ... Finnish Navy were old ships left behind by the Russians during the Finnish Civil War . These included ... . Finnish Navy started with several gunboats Finnish gunboat Klas Horn Klas Horn , Finnish gunboat ... more details
TOCright Below is list of Finnishlanguage exonym s for towns and cities in non Finnish speaking areas ... Aleksandria Cairo Al Qahirah Kairo Estonia Viro Estonian language Estonian and FinnishlanguageFinnish are quite closely related and share many words that differ only slightly, such as saar Estonian and saari Finnish for island . Many Estonian toponyms and even people s names are simply treated in Finnish as though they were Finnish words, creating an unlimited number of potentially existing ... reflist Category Exonyms Category Finnish toponyms Exonym Category Finnishlanguage Exonym ... Autonomy Act of land . Finnish names for places in land may therefore be considered exonyms. Mariehamn ... Bot generated title ref Delet Teili Lappvesi br The following is a list of old Finnish exonyms for land place names. Some of them, though not all, appear in the Finnish encyclopaedia Pieni Tietosanakirja from the late 1920s. The Swedish names are generally used in modern day Finnish. ref ... are commonly if not exclusively used in modern day Finnish. ref http kaino.kotus.fi www verkkojulkaisut ... Finnish , and Swedish speaking inhabitants have endonymic place names in both languages. Due to changing demographics, some monolingually Swedish areas have historical Finnish names inherited from earlier Finnish speaking inhabitants. For example, Molpe , a village of Korsn s is Moikip in Finnish ... Luxembourg Luxemburg Luxembourg city Luxembourg Luxemburg Norway Norja For further names, see Finnish ... list date August 2008 For Finnish town names in the Ingria region, see Finnish exonyms Ingria Note that Finnish was formerly an official language in the Republic of Karelia and is still widely used there, and some places in what was Finnish territory until World War II have been given totally new Russian names thus, Finnish names of Karelian places are not all strictly exonyms. Arkhangelsk Arkangeli ... Palace Peterhof Pietarhovi, Kuusoja Petrozavodsk Petroskoi, nislinna during Finnish occupation ... more details
The Finnish Party in Finnish Suomalainen Puolue was a Fennoman conservatism conservative political party in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and independent Finland . Born out of Finland s language strife in the 1860s, the party sought to improve the position of the Finnishlanguage in Finnish society. Johan Vilhelm Snellman , Yrj Sakari Yrj Koskinen , and Johan Richard Danielson Kalmari were its ideological leaders. The party s chief organ was the Suometar newspaper, later Uusi Suometar, and its members were sometimes called Suometarians suomettarelaiset . History The party started to form around a core of Fennoman intellectuals in the 1860s, but remained formally unorganized for decades. Improving the status of the Finnishlanguage, especially furthering its use in education, was a central issue from the start. In the 1877 1878 sessions of the Diet of Finland the party attained a leading role among the clergy and the peasantry, which it would hold till 1904. ref Ilkka Liikanen ... seats in every election, sliding down from 59 MPs in 1907 to 32 in 1917. After the Finnish independence in December 1917 and the Finnish Civil War Civil War of 1918, Russification was no longer an issue and the language question had lost a great deal of its importance in Finnish politics. The main ... a critical view of Russia, eventually breaking away and founding the Young Finnish Party in 1894. The Finnish Party sought legitimacy in the eyes of the Russian authorities and saw cooperation with Russia as a way to enact its language policies. When Russification of Finland Russification began in 1899, the Young Finns advocated passive resistance, whereas the Finnish Party, now often called the Old ... were being violated, it emphasized the importance of keeping official positions in Finnish hands and feared that resistance could lead to further loss of autonomy. Aside from the central language ... 1868 1934 Juho Kusti Paasikivi 1870 1956 Sources reflist Category Finnish nationalism Category ... more details
Notability date July 2008 Infobox Ethnic group group Finnish Brazilian br small Fino brasileiro , Suomalainen brasilian small image Image with unknown copyright status removed Image Finnish immigrants in penedo.jpg 250px image caption Finnish immigrants in Brazil deletable image caption poptime c. 90,000 ... people , Finnish people Finnish Brazilian lang pt Fino brasileiro or lang pt Finland s brasileiro is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Finnish ancestry, or a Finnish born person ... 2008 06 06 ref Penedo is the first Finnish people Finnish colony in Brazil . ref cite web url ... status removed Image Finnish people going to brazil.jpg thumb left Finnish people going to Brazil in 1929. deletable image caption In 1906, the first Finnish people Finnish immigrants seem to have been ... onwards, we also hear about Finnish people Finnish engineer s and technicians who worked in constructing railway s in Brazil . In 1908, a small Finnish people Finnish colony was founded, comprising ... to Finnish official statistics, about 500 immigrants left for Latin American countries. Venezuela then became a new country to Finnish emigration. In the course of time small Finnish colonies have ... Finnish resident in Latin American countries for diplomatic service or business. ref cite web url ... do Itatiaia. Penedo was settled by Finnish people Finnish immigrants in 1929. The founder of the settlement ... language Portuguese lessons reportedly at Berlitz International Berlitz , he ended up going ... the crop s. Image with unknown copyright status removed Image Finnish house in penedo.jpg thumb left The first Finland Finnish house of Penedo. deletable image caption Many of the settlers did ... to the Finnish sauna . Guests could enjoy the healthy lifestyle, delicious food and fresh baked bread ... attractive prices. Decorative candles, hand woven blankets and throws are also part of the Finnish ... the fresh mountain air. See also Immigration to Brazil European immigration to Brazil Finnish people ... more details
General Raimo Jyv sj rvi commander1 label Commander The Finland Finnish Army FinnishlanguageFinnish Maavoimat , Swedish language Swedish Arm n is the army land forces branch of the Finnish ... http tietokannat.mil.fi maavoimat2008 content.php?language fi FI&page id 7 Huoltoj rjestelm . Finnish ...More footnotes date August 2009 Infobox Military Unit unit name Finnish Army br Suomen maavoimat br Finlands arm image Image Suomen Maavoimien tunnus.svg 100px caption Finnish Army emblem dates 1918&ndash ... signals , and materiel troops. History of the Finnish Army See also Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland ... Guard Young Guard Battalion, the Finnish Guard. During the Crimean War , 1854, Finland set up nine sharpshooter battalions based on rote system. Conscription was issued in Finland in 1878. The Finnish ... it gained the status of Old Guard of the Russian Emperor. The Finnish army was gradually broken up during the Russification of Finland oppression years just after the turn of the century. As Finnish conscripts ... paid from the Finnish Senate to the Imperial treasury. At the turn of the 20th century, the Russian ... public order. Voluntary defence organizations disguised as fire brigades were formed by the Finnish ... as Jaeger troops j k rit . After independence and beginning of the Finnish Civil War the White government ... speaking, there is no continuity between the White Guards, which became a voluntary organization, and the Finnish ... Winter War The Finnish Army consisted of 9 field divisions, 4 brigades and a number of small independent ... into three corps. ref See http www.winterwar.com forces FinArmy.htm The Finnish Army in the Winter ... on the Karelian Isthmus , the likely location for the main Soviet attack. The Finnish IV Corps ... were reformed into the Finnish 21st Division Winter War 21st and Finnish 23rd Division Winter War ... Isthmus . Finnish II Corps Winter War II Corps II AK under Lieutenant General Harald hquist Finnish 4th Division Winter War 4th Division Finnish 5th Division Winter War 5th Division Finnish ... more details
Finnish Studies is a research area which is part of humanities and social sciences, and usually studies Finnishlanguage , Finnish culture and Finnish history . Finnish Studies in North America In Canada there are Finnish Studies activities in the University of Toronto , and Lakehead University in Thunder Bay . Toronto Chair is occupied by one individual at a time as Lakehead has a rotating position for scholars from Finland . In the United States Finnish studies are available at the Columbia University New York City New York , at the University of Washington Seattle , University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Madison , University of Minnesota Minneapolis and at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington . In addition, some Finnishlanguage and culture courses are offered at Finlandia University Hancock, Michigan Hancock , at University of California Berkeley, California Berkeley , and at the University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Eugene . David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professorship in Finnish Studies University of Minnesota has held the Government of Finland and David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professorship in Finnish Studies from 1989. The Chair was established in with the joint efforts of the Government of Finland, University of Minnesota, and Mr. David Speer. In the early 1990s the Chair changed into Visiting Professorship. The following persons have been visiting in the position in the previous years. 1992 Spring Pertti Pesonen 1931 2005 Political Science , University of Tampere 1992 Fall Aulis Aarnio Law , University of Tampere 1992 Fall Raimo V yrynen International Politics , University of Helsinki 1994 Spring Elina Haavio Mannila Sociology , University of Helsinki 1994 Fall Kaarle Nordenstreng University of Tampere 1996 Winter Clas Zilliacus Literature , bo Akademi University 1996 Fall Risto Alapuro Sociology, University of Helsinki 1998 Winter Max Engman History , bo Akademi University 1998 Winter J P Roos J.P. Roos Sociology , University of Helsinki ... more details
speaking and the language used, a Fennicized variant. When writing Finnish names without the Finnish ... Names by culture Category Finnish given names Category Finnishlanguage surnames Category Surnames ... patrilineally, while first names are usually chosen by a person s parents. Finnish names come from ..., the Western Finnish tradition whereby a married woman took her husband s surname was mandatory. Previously in Eastern Finland, this was not necessarily the case. Finnish first names are often of Biblical origin e.g., Jukka from Greek Johannes , but Finnish and Sweden Swedish origins are also common. In Finnish the letter j denotes the approximant IPA fi j , as in English you . For example, the two ... on the first syllable in Finnish. For example, Yrj K ri inen is pronounced IPA fi yrj k ri. inen ..., but long vowels are not doubled and the stress may be on any syllable. Finnish has a long bilingual history and it is not unusual for Finnish speakers to have Swedish surnames or given names. Such names ... and oe as in German. Surnames Finland has three predominant surname traditions the West Finnish , the East Finnish and that of the Swedish nobility . Until the early 20th century, Finland was a predominantly agriculture agrarian society and the names of West Finnish people Finns were based on their association ..., the East Finnish surname tradition dates back to 13th century. There, the Savonian people Savonians ... folk as early as the 13th century. By the mid 16th century, the East Finnish surnames had become hereditary. Typically, the oldest East Finnish surnames were formed from the first names of the patriarchs ... e.g. Puumalainen Puumala . In the East Finnish tradition, the females carried the family name of their fathers ... suffixes are wikt nen Finnish nen in oblique form se , e.g. Miettinen Miettisen Miettinen s , a diminutive suffix usually meaning small , and wikt la Finnish la wikt l Finnish l , a locative ... in Finland by the Swedish language Swedish speaking upper and middle classes which used typical ... more details
languageFinnish newspaper Keskisuomalainen location date 11 September 2008 url http www.ksml.fi ... letter to the Romani community languageFinnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat location Helsinki date ... Sieluni ei mahdu mustalaishameeseen trans title languageFinnish newspaper Sana location Helsinki ... location Helsinki series OPTL n tutkimustiedonantoja 83 pages 36 7 languageFinnish trans title ... languageFinnish trans title On the status of the Roma and the conditions of prisons and community penalties ...Infobox Ethnic group group Finnish Kale image div style white space nowrap Image Remu Aaltonen 2007.jpg 140px Image Rainer Friman in Pori 2008.JPG 75px caption Remu Aaltonen Rainer Friman population regions languages FinnishlanguageFinnish and Kalo Finnish Romani languageFinnish Romani region1 flag Finland pop1 10,000 ref1 ref name Suomen romanit http www.stm.fi julkaisut esitteita sarja nayta julkaisu 1066489 Suomen romanit Finitiko romaseele ref region2 flag Sweden pop2 3,000 ref2 ref name Suomen romanit religions Lutheran related other Romani people s The Finnish Kale lang rom K lo , lang fi Kaale or the Finnish romanis Suomen romanit are a group of the Romani people that live primarily in Finland and Sweden . Their main languages are FinnishlanguageFinnish and Kalo Finnish Romani languageFinnish Romani . They are mostly Christian . Citation needed date December 2008 History Finnish Kale came to Finland 500 years ago via Sweden by Romani groups who travelled from the kingdoms of Scotland ... War about a thousand Kales served in the Finnish military. ref http mansetori.fi index.php ... in many other countries, crime statistics give the ethnic background of the perpetrator. The Finnish ... report by the Finnish Department of Corrections, there were an estimated 120 to 140 Romanis in the Finnish prison system. The report discussed ways to combat institutional racism and discrimination ... on the unemployment of Finnish Kale by the Ministry of Labour English summary included Romani diaspora ... more details
yhteisot view?orgId 85 title Suomen Islam seurakunta date Unknown publisher uskonnot.fi languageFinnish ... of Helsinki languageFinnish accessdate 26 October 2010 ref They have their historical origins in Eastern Europe and their language belongs to the Turkic languages Turkic language family . During ... that the small group of Finnish Tatars has managed to preserve proficiency in the Tatar language ... Karelia was ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union in the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940. Most Finnish Tatars ... Islamic congregation Finlandiya Islam Cemaati Finnish Islamic Congregation was founded. Finland ... cannot become members of the Finnish Islamic Congregation. There are Tatar Islamic cemeteries in Helsinki, Turku and Tampere. The Tatars are fully integrated into Finnish society and they are actively engaged in Finnish economic and cultural life in a wide array of professions. At the same time, they have succeeded in maintaining a distinct identity and in keeping the Tatar language alive by using ... and language. From 1948 to 1969 there was a Tatar primary school T rk Halk Mektebi in Helsinki, which ... date April 2010 About half of the teaching was in Finnish and half in Tatar. Reform of the Finnish ..., the Islamic Congregation provides regular teaching of Tatar language, culture, religion and history, with Tatar as the language of instruction. A Tatar kindergarten has existed since the 1950s. Summer ... when Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1940. One notable Finnish Tatar is former soccer player ... in Finland Category Tatar people Finnish Category Tatar topics Category Muslim communities in Europe ... more details
Here A Finnish Spitz Finnishlanguage Suomenpystykorva is a dog breed breed of dog originating in Finland ... used in Finnish education Begin Infobox Dogbreed. The text of the article should go AFTER this section ... www.akc.org breeds finnish spitz index.cfm altname Finnish Hunting Dog br Finnish Spets br Finsk ... www.fci.be 2249 09. 08. 1999 22&hl en image Finnish Spitz 600.jpg image caption kcukgroup Hound kcukstd http www.thekennelclub.org.uk item 25 name Finnish Spitz nzkcgroup Hounds nzkcstd http www.nzkc.org.nz ... for domestic life. The Finnish Spitz has been the national dog of Finland since 1979. History File Finnish Pom from 1915.JPG thumb right Finnish Spitz from 1915 The Finnish Spitz developed ... obtain food, and the excellent hunting ability of the Finnish Spitz made it a favorite choice. ref ... together, Finnish Spitzes mated with other breeds of dogs, and were becoming extinct as a distinct breed. ref The American Kennel Club, p.508. ref At about that time, a Finnish sportsman from Helsinki named Hugo Roos observed the pure native Finnish Spitz while hunting in the northern forests. He realized the many virtues of the pure Finnish Spitz breed and decided to select dogs that were untainted examples of the genuine Finnish Spitz in order to try to revive the breed. ref Morris, p.316. ref Thirty years of careful breeding resulted in the modern Finnish Spitz the dogs are descendents of his original foundation stock. Appearance The Finnish Spitz resembles a fox. The proper conformation ... Coat The Finnish Spitz has a typical double coat , which consists of a soft, dense undercoat and long ... without sustenance can give the dog an unkempt look. Additionally, the tailset is important and the Finnish Spitz should be able to move its tail from one side to the other. Most Finnish Spitz have a preferred side and this is not incorrect. Proper care of the coat is most important. The Finnish ... File Suomenpystykorva 1989.jpg thumb right 1989 postage stamp depicting the Finnish Spitz Puppies ... more details
The Finnish Prisoner is an opera by Orlando Gough , first performed in 2007. Stephen Plaice wrote the English language libretto based on the true story of Finnish prisoners of war incarcerated in England ... landin sota laulu languageFinnish trans title Popular song Oolannin sota Crimean War and the original ... Reflist 2 DEFAULTSORT Finnish Prisoner, The Category Operas Category English language operas ... the officers were Russian, the men were mostly Finnish conscripts &ndash Finland was part of the Russian ... September 2010 ref A popular Finnish folk song, Oolannin sota Crimean War , evolved from the earlier ... across the story and used it as the basis for the libretto of The Finnish Prisoner . ref name Guardian ... The Finnish Prisoner first Mark last Pappenheim magazine Opera month September year 2007 pages ... url http yle.fi uutiset kulttuuri 2007 07 the finnish prisoner oopperan yleiso haltioissaan englannissa 244124.html title The Finnish Prisoner oopperan yleis haltioissaan Englannissa languageFinnish trans title The Finnish Prisoner opera audience spellbound in England first Eeva last Lennon publisher YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company date 13 July 2007 accessdate 2 September 2010 ref ref cite web ... with a cast of professional singers including members of the Finnish National Opera and locally ... s review in Opera magazine Opera called the hair raisingly deep toned rendition of Oolannin sota by the Finnish singers, ref name Pappenheim cite news title The Finnish Prisoner first Mark last Pappenheim ... prods finpris.htm title The Finnish Prisoner publisher Stephen Plaice accessdate ..., Finnish prisoner baritone Jarmo Ojala John Triptolemus, photographer tenor Stephen Chaundy Prison warder Traffic warden baritone Andrew Rupp Finnish prisoners tenor and bass voice type bass Members of the Finnish National Opera colspan 2 Director Susannah Waters colspan 2 Designer Num Stibbe colspan ... but 150 years apart the apparition of Matts, a Finnish soldier who once occupied that cell ... more details
Finnish rock FinnishlanguageFinnish suomirock or suomirokki also known as Finnsrock, Finnrock or Finrock ... by a long tradition of popular culture. Suomirock may refer to Finnish rock music in general or more narrowly rock music sung in the Finnishlanguage. Timeline Finnish rock followed the common trends during the 50s and 60s. Usually Finnish rock bands performed covers or hit songs translated into Finnish ... found their biggest success in the 1960s Finland. Helsinki was the centre of Finnish rock and pop music during this period. Love Records was one of the first domestic record labels dedicated to Finnish ... 1940 represented Finnish underground, and their only album Underground Rock 1970 is cited as a big influence among many current Finnish music makers. Other Finnish underground psychedelic bands of this era ... songs in Finnish, combining shades of irony, poetry and introspection with rock sound. Later in the seventies ... kone . Finnish rock had by now become independent. Names such as Dave Lindholm , Tuomari .... Well known Finnish band CMX band CMX also formed in 1985, transforming from a hardcore punk sound through progressive, metal, and hard rock sounds. Success abroad The earliest Finnish rock bands ... the most respected Finnish group abroad. For example in Japan there s still almost fanatic Hanoi Rocks ... , Korpiklaani and Waltari . A popular Finnish band abroad is HIM Finnish band HIM whose music has ... of HIM and The Rasmus during the current decade is wider than any Finnish group has gotten before. Finland ... outside of the continent. Lordi have also competed in Kuorosota , the Finnish version of Clash ... metal bands competition in the nations awards ceremonies. The most famous Finnish bands in extreme ... recently had their sole album reissued by Relapse Records. Finnish rock & heavy metal artists and bands ... kone Heijaste Hector musician Hector HIM Finnish band HIM Hurriganes Imperanon Indica Finnish ..., Santtu Salo, Markku Yeah Yeah Yeah. History of Finnish Rock WSOY 2002 Suomi rockin tiekartta Petri ... more details
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