The Balto-Finnic, or often simply Finnic, languages are a branch of Uralic languages. They are spoken in Northeastern Europe around the Baltic Sea, mainly...

The Northern Finnic languages are a branch of Finnic languages. The main language of the branch is Finnish. It is the official language of Finland and...

rāndakēļ) is a revived language related to Estonian. It is in the Baltic-Finnic group of the Uralic family. This short article about Europe can be made...

Estonians (Estonian: eestlased) are a Finnic people closely related to the Finns and inhabiting, primarily, the country of Estonia. The Estonians speak...

Ingrian, also called Izhorian, is a Finnic language spoken in Ingria, Russia. It is almost extinct, as it only has about 142 native speakers left. Most...

Karelian, is a Finnic language spoken in Karelia, Russia and Finland. It is spoken by Karelians. It is not to be confused with Livvi-Karelian, which is...

The Kven language is a Finnic language spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people. In 2005, the language was officially given minority status in Norway...

original people of Karelia are Karelians. Karelian people speak Karelian, a Finnic language very close to Finnish and Estonian. Karelians knew many old poems...

diaeresis and macron is used only in the alphabet of þe Kildin Sami (Old Finnic) language where it represents a lengthened palatinized front unrounded vowel...

kveeni, Norwegian: kvener, Northern Sami: kveanat) or Kven people are a Finnic ethnic minority in Norway. In the 9th century, king Alfred-the-great was...

Latvians speak Baltic languages (Latvian and Lithuanian), Estonians speak a Finnic language (Estonian). By their culture and history, the Baltic countries...

sang these poems. The poems have a unique metre that is not known outside Finnic languages. There are many themes in these stories from different times in...

Semitic languages: Maltese Language isolates: Greek, Albanian, and Armenian. Finnic: Estonian, Finnish, Livonian Permic: Komi, Udmurt Ugric (Disputed branch):...

European diaspora (the Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, Balts, Finnic and other peoples). In ethnology the term is often used to refer to the...

mostly do not understand one another. They share many things with the Baltic-Finnic languages such as Finnish, Estonian and Karelian but are not closely related...

Semigallians), which formed the ethnic core of modern Latvians together with the Finnic Livonians. Henry of Latvia coined the latinisations of the country's name...

1944. The Finns set up concentration camps in the city for people of non-Finnic ethnicity. In total, six camps were set up; which in total held 23,984 civilians...

many of Tormis’s compositions, Estonian history, and regilaul (the Baltic-Finnic runic song upon which much of Tormis’s music is based), translations of...

current location of Riga was created in the 2nd century. It was settled by a Finnic tribe called the Livonians. During the early Middle Ages, Riga began to...

languages, Bala-shika means land of celebrations, land of laughter and fun. Finnic peoples lived in this area before Slavs. The city is known for its unique...

Kingdom of Sweden and the Novgorod Republic. It was populated by many Baltic Finnic peoples such as Karelians in the northwest, Izhorians and Votians in the...

therefore to be considered rather weak. The ultimate Turkic source of the Volga-Finnic, Iranian and other late European names for 'hop' can not be excluded. Another...

people have a few ideas. One is that the name might be from a very old Finnic language, in which it means "dark" and "cloudy". In 12th century tribes...

chief god of the Finnish pagan pantheon. There are related words in other Finnic languages. In Estonian, põrgu means hell and in Karelian, perkeleh means...

Ethnicity Estonians Native speakers 1.1 million (2012) Language family Uralic Finnic Estonian Writing system Latin (Estonian alphabet) Estonian Braille Official...

Sweden Native speakers c. 5 million (2011) Language family Uralic Finnic Northern Finnic Finnish Writing system Latin (Finnish alphabet) Finnish Braille...

Proto-Uralic Subdivisions Finnic Ugric Khanty Mansi Mari Mordvinic Permic Sami Samoyedic Hungarian Language codes ISO 639-5 urj   Finnic   Sami   Mordvinic   Mari...

Khmer (Austroasiatic) Khmu (Austroasiatic) Khowar (Indo-Aryan) Kildin Sami (Finnic) Kimatuumbi (Bantu) Kinaray-a or Hiraya (Malayo-Polynesian) Kinyarwanda...

Valley Native speakers (60,000 cited 1997–2009) Language family Uralic Finnic Finnish Meänkieli Official status Recognised minority language in Sweden...

The Estonian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with Latin influence. Because of Latin influence, Estonian contains the letters Ä, Ö and Ü. The Estonian...

Estonia Ethnicity Seto-Võro Or Voro Era 18th Century Language family Uralic Finnic South Estonian Voro Dialects Central Võro Haanja Võro Seto-Võro Leelo Võro...

European mythologies Celtic Otherworld Annwn Tír na nÓg Mag Mell Tech Duinn Finnic Tuonela Germanic Asgard Fólkvangr Valhalla Neorxnawang Gimlé Helheimr Greek...