BFSU LANGUAGE ENTRY
032 / 101Finnish
SuomiAt BFSU, Finnish is among 101 approved foreign languages, connecting the university’s multilingual education with the places and cultures where the language is used.
Finland, Estonia, Sweden
- NATIVE NAME
- Suomi
- WRITING SYSTEM
- Latin script
- AT BFSU
- One of 101 languages
LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD
See where Finnish connects communities.
LANGUAGE REACH
Finnish is spoken across 4 countries and territories.
No. 70 of 101 languages · No. 35 by territory count
Europe
03FinlandEstoniaSweden
Other areas
01Russia
From daily conversation in Finland, Estonia, and Sweden to education, literature and media, Finnish carries the accents, vocabulary and expressions of different communities.
Population and distribution figures use Unicode CLDR 48 ↗ estimates of people able to use the language, including first- and second-language users. Recorded reach counts territories with an estimated community of at least 10,000; figures are comparative, not live counts.
AT BFSU
A language opens a wider view of the world.
BFSU places Finnish within a multilingual programme that brings language study together with literature, history, society and regional knowledge.
The language is commonly written in Latin script; its literature, media and everyday expressions carry the experiences of the communities that use it.
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