Concept information
Preferred term
Tornedalen Finnish
Definition
- Tornedalen Finnish is a group of distinct Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost part of Sweden, particularly along the Torne River Valley. It is officially recognized as one of Sweden's five minority languages and is treated as a separate language from Finnish. Its status as an independent language is sometimes disputed due to this high degree of mutual intelligibility. However, Meänkieli contains strong influences from Swedish and has preserved some archaic features that even the Northern Finnish dialects have lost. Together with Finnish, it belongs to the Finnic languages of the Uralic language family.
Entry terms
- Meänkieli
Identifier
- FIT
Notation
- fit
In other languages
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Tornedalsfinska
Swedish
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Meänkieli
Tornedalen Finnish
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/FIT
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