Finnish

Finno-Ugric language mostly spoken in Finland
Intangible modern_language Q1412
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Finnish

Summary

Finnish is a modern language[1]. Finnish draws 8,347 Wikipedia views per month (modern_language category, ranking #8 of 43).[2]

Key Facts

  • Finnish is in the country of Finland[3].
  • Finnish is in the country of Estonia[4].
  • Finnish is in the country of Sweden[5].
  • Finnish is in the country of Norway[6].
  • Finnish is in the country of Russia[7].
  • Finnish's instance of is recorded as modern language[8].
  • Finnish's instance of is recorded as natural language[9].
  • Finnish is a type of Finnic[10].
  • Finnish's writing system is recorded as Latin script[11].
  • Finnish's writing system is recorded as Scandinavian Braille[12].
  • Finnish's Commons category is recorded as Finnish language[13].
  • Finnish's Wikimedia language code is recorded as fi[14].
  • Finnish's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 62, 'lon': 26}[15].
  • Finnish's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Finnish language[16].
  • Finnish's described at URL is recorded as https://uralic.clld.org/languages/11[17].
  • Finnish's language regulatory body is recorded as Finnish Language Office[18].
  • Finnish's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+5413380'}[19].
  • Finnish's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Finnish[20].
  • Finnish's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • Finnish's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • Finnish's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[23].
  • Finnish's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • Finnish's topic has template is recorded as Q33125647[25].
  • Finnish's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/finnish[26].
  • Finnish's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'suomi'}[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include modern language[8] and natural language[9]. Finnish is a type of Finnic[10].

Influence

Things named for Finnish include Voima[28], an icebreaker[29] and Kontio[30], an icebreaker[31].

Why It Matters

Finnish draws 8,347 Wikipedia views per month (modern_language category, ranking #8 of 43).[2] Finnish has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] Finnish is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for Finnish include Voima[28], an icebreaker[29] and Kontio[30], an icebreaker[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 225
    Deaf movie database language id → finnish
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'a
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13704]]: finnish, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/225055099|finnish (#225055099)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7269|‎Deaf Movie Database la"
  2. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → Ekbb7
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → finnish-language
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: finnish-language, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289925453|finnish language (#289925453)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003553-finstina
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0003553-finstina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 16w ago · Eva L Vedin · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb interest id → in0000218
    National historical museums of sweden id → term/28bc14f0-44ae-44c6-a162-4c626c85598d
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P9495]]: term/28bc14f0-44ae-44c6-a162-4c626c85598d"
  6. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C153919
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 8856, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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