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Finnish vs Swedish - What's the difference?

finnish | swedish |

As adjectives the difference between finnish and swedish

is that finnish is of or pertaining to finland while swedish is of or pertaining to sweden.

As proper nouns the difference between finnish and swedish

is that finnish is the finno-ugric language spoken by the majority of the people living in finland, one of the two official languages of the country (the other is swedish) while swedish is the language of sweden and (an autonomous part of finland) swedish is also one of the two official languages of finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens a very small minority in estonia has swedish as their mother tongue.

finnish

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to Finland.
  • Of or pertaining to the Finnish language.
  • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Finno-Ugric language spoken by the majority of the people living in Finland, one of the two official languages of the country (the other is Swedish).
  • See also

    * Finn: a person from Finland. * (projectlink) * Torne Valley Finnish: a variety of Finnish spoken in Northern Sweden * Kven: a variety of Finnish spoken in Northern Norway * Karelian * (fi)

    swedish

    English

    (Swedish language)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The language of Sweden and (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.
  • See also

    * (sv) * Language list

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to Sweden.
  • Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.
  • Anagrams

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