Languages of Finland | |
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Official | Finnish (1st: 86%, 2nd: 13%) Swedish (1st: 5%, 2nd: 44%) |
Minority | officially recognized: Sami, Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language, Karelian |
Immigrant | Estonian, Russian, Arabic, Somali, English, Kurdish, Albanian, Persian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, Spanish |
Foreign | English (70%) German (30%) French (10%)[1] |
Signed | Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language |
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Source | [1] (europa.eu) |
The two main official languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. There are also several official minority languages: three variants of Sami, as well as Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language and Karelian.[2]